Little things that irritate you

[Redway]

When people quantify the extent of something with “beyond” too much. “Beyond awful”, “beyond atrocious”. It’s so cliched now.

[Redway]

ITV’s “does everyone have a long-lost relative somewhere?” advert. Of course they do. Everyone does. Have you ever consciously gone about meeting your 12th cousins before?

[Redway]

EastEnders > Corrie > Emmerdale (from best to worst). Tuesday nights that are just half an hour of Emmerdale are pretty grim, still. EastEnders is released at 6am on BBC iPlayer now on the weekdays it’s on so people be watching it early on the toilet or on their break in work. Come Tuesday and Thursday evenings it’s typically just Emmerdale. That can be annoying. Especially when it’s just Liam being awkward (why haven’t he and Nicola been diagnosed with autism yet?), the guy who plays Ethan acting very poorly indeed and abusive Tom throwing Belle under the ’bus for the trillionth time.

[Livia]

I detest Eastenders, although I come from the East End. I adore Corrie... do people from Manchester like it, I wonder?

[Zizu]

I detest Eastenders, although I come from the East End. I adore Corrie... do people from Manchester like it, I wonder?


We used to like Corrie when it was on twice a week , Monday and Wednesday and they ended episodes on a knife- edge then we waited days to see what on earth was going to happen .


Nowadays soaps leak all the stories.. even details of a murder ..

Imagine reading a book with spoilers every few pages !!


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[Redway]

The way certain adverts pathologise women. Why are you associating women with inherent bladder issues? Where’s that coming from and how does that even make sense? Isn’t it stereotypical that guys piss way more than ladies?

[Crimson Dynamo]

The way certain adverts pathologise women. Why are you associating women with inherent bladder issues? Where’s that coming from and how does that even make sense? Isn’t it stereotypical that guys piss way more than ladies?

women pee way way more than men

childbirth makes it even worse

and its not even close

[Niamh.]

Yeah hate to agree with LT [emoji14] but the ads exist because women do pee more for a number of biological reasons

[Mystic Mock]

When Entertainment is more obsessed with people's heritage or sexuality more than they are about the individual as a person.

Like I saw an interview on Sky Sports News yesterday afternoon, where the woman was tasked with interviewing an ex-Footballer about him having Indian heritage.

Yes on Sky SPORTS News, they were more obsessed with talking about an ex-Footballer having Indian heritage and racism in Football, rather than talking about his time in Football, or what were his favourite memories of his time as a player (like an actual Sports channel should be doing) but instead they did what they always do these days, which is behave like Sky News.

[Redway]

People who have a generic answer to everything instead of doing the work to understand narcissism and de-enable toxicity. Dr Ramani’s work is not just another delusional TikTok piety of the snowflakey times. It’s life, and the woman genuinely knows her stuff. We can all learn from her and stamp patterns like that out of our workplaces. It might be by protecting our staff more and not just enabling the troublemakers around them who are self-confessed covert narcissists, it might be by making sure everyone has a fair say in meetings. Whatever. Do what you need to do but just do not look at people and their behaviour in the most literally non-nuanced, generified way there is when there’s complexity in the situations and/or an element of discomfort or concerns that have been raised before, but haven’t been acted on or had anything done about.

[Redway]

Also. The assumption that people who look white but are actually partially mixed race … can’t be mixed race, and vice-versa (this idea that being mixed-race inherently makes you black, whether that’s how you identify or not). Some people are more … racially ambiguous than others but it’s not a stretch to be somewhat mixed with something (Sri Lankan, Jamaican, Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Akan, Sudanese, Afro-Virginian, Native Canadian, whatever) even with blue eyes. You don’t have to look or be 50-50 mixed in the stereotypical ‘white mum, black dad’ way to be mixed.

[Mystic Mock]

Also. The assumption that people who look white but are actually partially mixed race … can’t be mixed race, and vice-versa (this idea that being mixed-race inherently makes you black, whether that’s how you identify or not). Some people are more … racially ambiguous than others but it’s not a stretch to be somewhat mixed with something (Sri Lankan, Jamaican, Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Akan, Sudanese, Afro-Virginian, Native Canadian, whatever) even with blue eyes. You don’t have to look or be 50-50 mixed in the stereotypical ‘white mum, black dad’ way to be mixed.

I'm amazed at how taboo being mixed race can still be in some circles.

[Zizu]

I'm amazed at how taboo being mixed race can still be in some circles.


Especially as we’re all probably mixed race to some degree


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[Zizu]

Bloody huge subtitles on SKY !!!


Netflix , YouTube and the others all do it so much better !!!



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[Redway]

1. This guy's voice-advertisement for UberEats and how it applies to Liverpool doing the rounds on Spotify literally every 3 minutes. It's just annoying now.

2. Your bank notifying you to add a new insight to your financial catalogue because some new money's been added to your account, meanwhile you're not a penny richer and your balance is the same. False hope on a loop.

[Redway]

'Back-to-back meetings? No time to sort lunch? Why not order some Caribou-Poutine, Maggie Fu or Greggs?'

Ugh. Enough already. Just shut up, dude.

[Zizu]

1. This guy's voice-advertisement for UberEats and how it applies to Liverpool doing the rounds on Spotify literally every 3 minutes. It's just annoying now.

2. Your bank notifying you to add a new insight to your financial catalogue because some new money's been added to your account, meanwhile you're not a penny richer and your balance is the same. False hope on a loop.


Number 2 sounds like a scam ?


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[Redway]

Number 2 sounds like a scam ?


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It's no scam. It's just Santander being stupid and giving people false hope. Notifications like that pop up sometimes. For whatever reason.

[Redway]

I detest Eastenders, although I come from the East End. I adore Corrie... do people from Manchester like it, I wonder?

I feel like it'll be on an individual, person-by-person basis with Corrie but I have definitely noticed that Liverpool and the South are a bit more skewed towards EastEnders than Corrie on average. Brookside was once the Scouse answer to the big 3 (to get territorial about it) so people who have at least lived in Liverpool during some of those times are used to the soap archetype being more cutting-edge and gritty. But in their prime all 3 were among the most-watched televised shows in the UK so it's often just a matter of order and preference. But before Corrie became gentrified and stuff, EastEnders was the characteristic cool soap that young people would watch. Not so much Corrie if they weren't from that side of the North and certainly not Emmerdale.

There's a part of me what detests Emmerdale but it fills a void on weeknights and is just another option for cosy entertainment on those Fridays so I do watch it. But it's only EastEnders, Corrie and (to an extent) Waterloo Road that I'm serious about as far as soap goes. Maybe Holby City but yeah. I like some elements of Emmerdale but it's a show that's tried to do EastEnders dirty so many times over the years and until the 2010s it lacked the grit that EastEnders and to an extent even Corrie had in at least some spades. I like cosy and comfy and I'm not totally adverse to the odd 'plane-crash (or whatever next stupid stunt Emerdale usually has planned) but it has to be based in a certain heaviness and grit. Nothing in Emmerdale really seems to follow from that as directly as EastEnders and Corrie do so it's not a show I take super-seriously. I just watch it, and not even regularly up-until the 50th anniversary (2 years ago).

Classic Emmerdale (they show repeats of that and Corrie on ITVX) is supposed to be in a good era for the show (2004-early 2005) at the moment but on the off-chance that I tune in I just don't see this quality people have spoken of. Farm politics just don't appeal to me. It's all very boring and dull.

[Zizu]

It's no scam. It's just Santander being stupid and giving people false hope. Notifications like that pop up sometimes. For whatever reason.


How bizarre


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[Redway]

Major ting. People taking Samaritans as a sex chat line. Pervy, overly horny middle-aged men just cannot give it a rest. They spoil a lot for people. And exploiting a helpline for people in distress because you’re horny is just another level of low.

[Mystic Mock]

Especially as we’re all probably mixed race to some degree


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Being honest it really doesn't show on me, I'm whiter than Janet Devlin.:joker:

But what you're saying is most likely true.

[Mystic Mock]

Major ting. People taking Samaritans as a sex chat line. Pervy, overly horny middle-aged men just cannot give it a rest. They spoil a lot for people. And exploiting a helpline for people in distress because you’re horny is just another level of low.

I've never understood how anyone gets horny over hearing a voice over the Phone.

Maybe I'm mentally still stuck in my teens when it comes to that kind of stuff, because I'm about four things.

1. A pretty face
2. The figure
3. What is she wearing?
And 4. What isn't she wearing?:evilgrin:

Obviously this is why I don't have a girlfriend.:joker:

And just to clarify, I agree with you that people shouldn't be using a suicide helpline for sexual gratification, that's just... Gross.:umm2:

[Redway]

I've never understood how anyone gets horny over hearing a voice over the Phone.

Maybe I'm mentally still stuck in my teens when it comes to that kind of stuff, because I'm about four things.

1. A pretty face
2. The figure
3. What is she wearing?
And 4. What isn't she wearing?:evilgrin:

Obviously this is why I don't have a girlfriend.:joker:

And just to clarify, I agree with you that people shouldn't be using a suicide helpline for sexual gratification, that's just... Gross.:umm2:


Gotcha.

And yeah. It really is gross upon gross.

[Redway]

It has to be said, though, Mock, that Samaritans aren’t just for suicidal people, so if you had a friend who needed support and was willing to talk about it to someone, they wouldn’t necessarily have to be suicidal to tap in or ask for emotional support. They’ll listen to anyone who’s in distress or just needs someone to talk to about something that’s getting in the way of them living their best lives. Anything.

I’ve definitely had suicidal moments when I needed to use Samaritans just to keep me gucci for the night (there’s no shame in being a little open about that) but that’s not all they’re there for.

[Mystic Mock]

It has to be said, though, Mock, that Samaritans aren’t just for suicidal people, so if you had a friend who needed support and was willing to talk about it to someone, they wouldn’t necessarily have to be suicidal to tap in or ask for emotional support. They’ll listen to anyone who’s in distress or just needs someone to talk to about something that’s getting in the way of them living their best lives. Anything.

I’ve definitely had suicidal moments when I needed to use Samaritans just to keep me gucci for the night (there’s no shame in being a little open about that) but that’s not all they’re there for.

I actually didn't know that they also helped with other issues that people might be mentally suffering with.

They seem like a good service tbh, that unfortunately are getting idiots hijacking it for different reasons to what it's actually meant to be there for.

[Mystic Mock]

Oh and my own personal gripe is with the Yakuza Video Game fandom.

Unlike other Video Game franchises where their fandoms will nitpick at even the slightest issue, the Yakuza fandom largely laps it up:

1. Name change from Yakuza to Like A Dragon (and I don't care if that's what it's called in Japan) we in the West obviously don't live in Japan, and we have been calling it Yakuza since the PS2 days, and that is how it should've stayed in the West.

But anyway, no resistance from the fandom to the title change.

2. Hardly any fight back on the horrible change to becoming a Turn Based RPG, when it was originally an Action-Adventure series, with a tiny amount of RPG thrown in, and I mean very slight.

We've even got people on Twitter, trying to call the series an RPG series, which is just disgusting as it isn't an RPG series, you are the genre that you started out as, it's that simple.

3. No fight back on all of the Yakuza cast from the Kiryu era largely being removed in Yakuza 7, which again helped lose that Game it's connections to the rest of the franchise imo. But again hardly any blow back on that from the fandom.

4. The fact that Yakuza 8 moved location from Japan to America for chunks of the Game, how on earth is that a Yakuza Game? Especially when you take into account all of the other changes that I've mentioned.

And 5. Dialling down the jokes/eccentricity, if some people don't like the jokes that you've told then tough, you imo don't dial down the humour just to please people that "might've" been offended, again common sense is just completely ignored though.

[Livia]

That advert for incontinence pads where the woman is sitting on the toilet. What does she tell me that she couldn't have said on her feet with her knickers up?

[Zizu]

That advert for incontinence pads where the woman is sitting on the toilet. What does she tell me that she couldn't have said on her feet with her knickers up?


Another example of slipping standards, I’m afraid !


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[Zizu]

I hate all those adverts every ten minutes advising me that 1 in every 2 people will get cancer !!

These adverts are terrible for negative/ anxious/ depressed/ worrying types like myself!


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[Livia]

I hate all those adverts every ten minutes advising me that 1 in every 2 people will get cancer !!

These adverts are terrible for negative/ anxious/ depressed/ worrying types like myself!


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How come we get trigger warnings for soaps but are subjected to the most harrowing adverts without warning? Fly-covered babies in Africa, awful animal abuse, cancer... And plenty of ads for rearranging your funeral in case you're one of the unlucky ones.

[Redway]

That advert for incontinence pads where the woman is sitting on the toilet. What does she tell me that she couldn't have said on her feet with her knickers up?

This is part of what I’m saying. Those adverts are in very, very poor taste.

[Redway]

I actually didn't know that they also helped with other issues that people might be mentally suffering with.

They seem like a good service tbh, that unfortunately are getting idiots hijacking it for different reasons to what it's actually meant to be there for.

They are. And the thing is a lot of people have been on both ends of the 'phone. They've had cause to reach out and they've been volunteers themselves, so it can be a double-barrelled experience.

[Zizu]

How come we get trigger warnings for soaps but are subjected to the most harrowing adverts without warning? Fly-covered babies in Africa, awful animal abuse, cancer... And plenty of ads for rearranging your funeral in case you're one of the unlucky ones.


Such uplifting stuff as well ! Not !!


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[Nicky91]

how hateful, nasty and vile people can be on social media's

[Redway]

'Back-to-back meetings? No time to sort lunch? Why not order some Caribou-Poutine, Maggie Fu or Greggs?'

Ugh. Enough already. Just shut up, dude.

He can’t even pronounce Greggs right.

[Mystic Mock]

I hate all those adverts every ten minutes advising me that 1 in every 2 people will get cancer !!

These adverts are terrible for negative/ anxious/ depressed/ worrying types like myself!


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Nearly everything on TV nowadays is designed with one of these three things in mind at the very least. And possibly all three if it's a tragically awful product.

1. To make the viewer feel depressed.

2. To divide audiences over Politics.

And 3. Refusal to have a proper personality that isn't just about what demographic that you come from.

[Redway]

Unnecessary drama being made to be your business. And all the annoying conversations and crazily disproportionate reactions that come with it. Hate it.

“I want us to talk about something nice”, only for it to be the ugliest, most unnecessarily drama-filled conversation you’ve had in a while. I’m not going to run a mile anyway if you really need us to talk but let’s drop the lies. You haven’t summoned me up so we can sing kumbaya over ice cream.

[Redway]

People lacking all subtlety in terms of recognising, interpreting and acknowledging someone’s need for boundaries at any one moment in time. Sometimes you need space from people and it may or may not be anything personal.

[Mystic Mock]

Why are these so good.:fist:

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.mk1DwtJGKCX_AtXFFkYjKQHaJ4?dpr=1.5&pid=ImgDetMain

[Redway]

Seriously, this Spotify UberEats guy needs to shut up.

[hijaxers]

Being labelled bloody cis Fuming

[Redway]

Being labelled bloody cis Fuming

It’s a convenient way of distinguishing between trans. people and people who are the sex they were assigned at birth. Trans people themselves get called much worse so I dunno. I dunno. Everyone has the right to feel how they feel but I’m not trying to be up in my own because of the most handy nomenclature of the time. Trans people get too much flack at the minute.

[Zizu]

It’s a convenient way of distinguishing between trans. people and people who are the sex they were assigned at birth. Trans people themselves get called much worse so I dunno. I dunno. Everyone has the right to feel how they feel but I’m not trying to be up in my own because of the most handy nomenclature of the time. Trans people get too much flack at the minute.


You are a complex little entity , aren’t you !?

Why spend so much time and energy on something so inconsequential


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[Redway]

Slow and inattentive customer-service. One person on their own behind the bar when there are dozens of people waiting to order.

[Zizu]

Stupid names chosen by big companies ‘n

Goldfish credit cards - very comforting ( not)

Head - sportswear

Elbow - a fabulous pop group

Flannels - new high street chain store


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[Gusto Brunt]

Currently the weather. Only 7c this morning at 8am.

Forecast for the rest of June a washout and some frost - continued wind and low temperatures.

No hope for July either. :(

[Redway]

Currently the weather. Only 7c this morning at 8am.

Forecast for the rest of June a washout and some frost - continued wind and low temperatures.

No hope for July either. :(

Got a bit of sun where I am today so it is what it is. In any case, June 2007 was much rainier.

[Zizu]

Currently the weather. Only 7c this morning at 8am.

Forecast for the rest of June a washout and some frost - continued wind and low temperatures.

No hope for July either. :(


I saw reports of a two week heatwave coming in 7 days .. Gtr Manchester ?!??


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[Mystic Mock]

I saw reports of a two week heatwave coming in 7 days .. Gtr Manchester ?!??


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That's terrifying.

[Redway]

That's terrifying.

People can’t seem to make up their minds about what kind of weather they want, can they?

[Mystic Mock]

People can’t seem to make up their minds about what kind of weather they want, can they?

I'm consistent.

If I start feeling direct sunlight, I'm going to boil.

And if there's ice on the roads, then I'm out of commission.:joker:

[Livia]

The Sauvage ad with Johnny Depp. If I never again see him strumming away pretending to play Wild Thing, surrounded by wolves, it would please me.

[Zizu]

I’m in the minority here but I hate international football teams having foreign born players in them .

It makes the whole thing pointless when you get large numbers in there like Germany regularly did years ago ..

Currently we have…

Spain playing French born CB

Italy’s key player is a Brazilian born holding midfielder


I am sure there are many more


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[Mystic Mock]

I’m in the minority here but I hate international football teams having foreign born players in them .

It makes the whole thing pointless when you get large numbers in there like Germany regularly did years ago ..

Currently we have…

Spain playing French born CB

Italy’s key player is a Brazilian born holding midfielder


I am sure there are many more


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Is that really a minority opinion though?

Surely we all want national teams to have players that have at least been educated through that particular country's education system, to actually then play for that country.

It's why Haaland should be playing for England, he was born and brought up in Leeds.

[Mystic Mock]

I apologize for going political here.

But why does whenever left leaning policies happen in society, do some of the right (not all) go straight to the "protect the kids" or "think of the children" type of mindset, even if the topic has nothing remotely to do with harming kids?

[Redway]

I seriously implore anyone who doesn’t believe in depression to visit an inpatient unit for the severely depressed.

“Suicide shouldn’t even be on your mind if you have money.”

When someone’s literally on death’s door and living in a world of nihilistic delusion it’s not really about how many numbers they have in their bank account. But people who don't know much about heavy depression don’t know how far the train goes inside the bottom-most pits of hell and torture. It really is a horrible set of illnesses. If you say otherwise it’s just because you don’t know what severe or even moderate types of depression look like. Simple.
… ya. Again, the fact that so many people out there (including those who should definitely know better) don’t know just-how severe depression can be. That depression can be psychotic and often is shouldn’t be a drastically shocking revelation. It’s just a basic fact and one that’s been much-known in the right circles for thousands of years. There’s nothing new or ground-breaking abar it, still.

[Zizu]

Scruffy , cheap looking, poorly situated tattoos !

Ariana Grande is proudly showing these off in her recent pop videos

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[Redway]

People spoiling perfectly-good foods with boiled eggs (yuck).

[Mystic Mock]

Why constructive criticism gets classed as bullying nowadays?

[Zizu]

Why constructive criticism gets classed as bullying nowadays?


That plus , shameless box ticking in football and illegal immigration are probably my biggest gripes currently


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[Ammi]

Why constructive criticism gets classed as bullying nowadays?

….hmmmmm, maybe it is bullying all dressed up in the clothing of constructive criticism…I’m not saying that it is because I have no idea what’s being referred to but that is also an equal thing to consider…

[Mystic Mock]

….hmmmmm, maybe it is bullying all dressed up in the clothing of constructive criticism…I’m not saying that it is because I have no idea what’s being referred to but that is also an equal thing to consider…

I'm thinking whenever anyone has an issue with anything really, there's always a group of people on the Internet that will think that you should just "shut up" and not discuss your issues about whatever the topic is about.

I don't like how some people just want forced positivity.

[Mystic Mock]

That plus , shameless box ticking in football and illegal immigration are probably my biggest gripes currently


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I hate anything that's not based on either merit or giving someone a chance at something as a punt (basically to see if you can strike gold with the unknown.)

As soon as the reason is either DEI or because their name is Wayne Rooney related, that's me losing respect for that particular product for the time being.

[Ammi]

I'm thinking whenever anyone has an issue with anything really, there's always a group of people on the Internet that will think that you should just "shut up" and not discuss your issues about whatever the topic is about.

I don't like how some people just want forced positivity.

…it isn’t about ‘forced positivity’, it’s about realising that some things may be constructive criticism but that bullying can also use that to hide its true nature and that’s the truth of it also…sadly with social media and how we communicate in these times, it’s very much ‘evolved’ into that vein also…

[Mystic Mock]

…it isn’t about ‘forced positivity’, it’s about realising that some things may be constructive criticism but that bullying can also use that to hide its true nature and that’s the truth of it also…sadly with social media and how we communicate in these times, it’s very much ‘evolved’ into that vein also…

Obviously bullying should never be acceptable, I do get what you're saying on that.

I think my three main areas where I feel like constructive criticism just gets frowned upon in some corners, and I really don't agree with any of them.

1. Politics.

2. Video Games if they have poor quality + how the industry is currently treating their employees.

And 3. If a TV Show is having writing issues.

Some people will think that you're out of order if you dare to have something negative to say, or are just questioning things in any one of those three fields in general.

[Redway]

How morbid people get as they get older. I’m a health-and-disorder buff myself but people who pretty-much just talk about health problems? Ugh.

[Redway]

Extraverts who insist on making libraries hubs for constant talking too much to people who don’t want to be bothered.

[hijaxers]

Extraverts who insist on making libraries hubs for constant talking too much to people who don’t want to be bothered.

Peace and quiet is what i always enjoyed about libraries, its essential.

[Redway]

This current cucumber-stew trend that’s been doing the round in certain circles (if you know, you know). Just. Make. It. Stop.

[Mystic Mock]

Cheesy slogans.

A couple of days ago on the Euros, I saw one of the billboards say "every child is a champion" and it just made me hardcore cringe.

I get that UEFA is saying it for a good cause (I have no issues in that area,) but what's with everything having to be so cheesy in it's delivery? It's not even got the tongue in cheek vibe that the 80's & 90's were so good at when doing or saying something cheesy.

[Redway]

The fact that we live in such an unfair world that for some people calling Samaritans is the highlight of their day.

[Mystic Mock]

The fact that we live in such an unfair world that for some people calling Samaritans is the highlight of their day.

It shows us that there's something very wrong with the way society currently is in my view.

[Redway]

It shows us that there's something very wrong with the way society currently is in my view.

It’s been much worse in that regard. Nothing current about it, Mock, it does have to be said.

[Mystic Mock]

It’s been much worse in that regard. Nothing current about it, Mock, it does have to be said.

Current society has probably been like this since the 80's.

That's my covering of current society anyway.

[Redway]

I definitely agree with a lot of your points Redway.

My controversial belief, is that Celeb culture has unfortunately trivialized Mental Health issues to the point of having a bad week/month is them having "poor Mental Health" rather than just a bad period in their lives.

I mean I am personally lucky that I have never experienced poor Mental Health, I've had horrible stuff happen (like everyone does tbf, I'm not special in that regard) but I have never been mentally broken by them, I've probably come close a couple of times, but I do try to have Guts's mentality from Berserk of fighting on (obviously in a very different situation to Guts) but hopefully you get what I mean.

So basically I'm not a Mental Health expert, but I do believe that some Celebrities (not all,) are seeing the fact that society in general is opening up more about their Mental Health struggles, and having more sympathy for the people with poor Mental Health compared to a decade ago, and unfortunately I do think that some of these Celebrities are claiming falsely that they have had Mental Health issues, and the reason I think is for said Celeb to revitalize their fading career.

And what I think is then happening, is that some of society are unfortunately trivializing everybody who has poor Mental Health into the same negative stereotypes.

Gotcha.

But yeah. If you don’t understand depression, you don’t understand mental illness, period. (I’m not applying that to you at all.) And celebrities definitely do play their part in trivialising bipolar. That much is for-sure.

[Mystic Mock]

Gotcha.

But yeah. If you don’t understand depression, you don’t understand mental illness, period. (I’m not applying that to you at all.) And celebrities definitely do play their part in trivialising bipolar. That much is for-sure.

I agree with you.

[Redway]

Train-conductors who talk too much. Jesus Christ.

[Redway]

AI becoming more and more prevalent (big ting, still). For writers like me, AI is not good news. It’s rotting away at some of our livelihood.

No writer who doesn’t want to be out of business would say that AI is a uniformly good thing.

[Mystic Mock]

AI becoming more and more prevalent (big ting, still). For writers like me, AI is not good news. It’s rotting away at some of our livelihood.

No writer who doesn’t want to be out of business would say that AI is a uniformly good thing.

AI imo is terrifying.

Like you've said yourself, it's a risk to so many people's livelihood, plus if we keep taking away reasons for people to go outside, we as a species are going to find it hard to procreate in the far future.

Because even before AI, all of the big shops are now available online, which again stops people from going outside and possibly meeting someone.

[Zizu]

People pretending they are singers and fooling the world for decades
u2RdlY-X9UU


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[Mystic Mock]

People pretending they are singers and fooling the world for decades
u2RdlY-X9UU


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Unfortunately the Music scene has gotten really ugly with that deception.

I mean tbf to Kylie, I have heard far worse live, but she's not one of the best either imo.

[Zizu]

Unfortunately the Music scene has gotten really ugly with that deception.

I mean tbf to Kylie, I have heard far worse live, but she's not one of the best either imo.


She only sang about 10 words then said
“over to you , ladies “

LOL


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[Mystic Mock]

She only sang about 10 words then said
“over to you , ladies “

LOL


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I still remember a Radio Show performance from Ke$ha that was extremely awful.

I have nothing personal against Ke$ha or her Music, but I'll never forget how that sounded.:laugh:

[Ray.]

This doesn't irritate me as such, but it does amuse me: A little while ago, I received a notificaiton for a fresh reply to a comment I made on YouTube....fifteen years ago lol. And more than that, the comment I left was so obviously made in response to another person, in a conversation whose context has since been lost through years and years of YouTube constantly reformatting the comments section and consequently breaking up the chain of replies, etc. In which case, I can't possibly be expected to stand by or disown the original comment with any particular degree of certainty or confidence. But this person was so confrontational and sarcastic in their tone, I just had to laugh. Imagine getting that uppity in response to a YouTube comment made fifteen years ago and whose contet has since been totally lost. Some strange people about.

The real funny part is that it was a comment on a Doctor Who video lol. So yeah, a real deep and consequential discussion has been lost to time, regrettably.

[Redway]

AI imo is terrifying.

Like you've said yourself, it's a risk to so many people's livelihood, plus if we keep taking away reasons for people to go outside, we as a species are going to find it hard to procreate in the far future.


Yep. People who do bits with writing (whether it’s just as a little side-hustle or they’re earning serious buck as a senior linguist, or anything in-between) are usually the type of people who were very good at English in school and people like that have a lot of indispensable value to offer the world in whatever field they go on to specialise in. In an era of AI it’s easier than ever, even if only subtly at this point, to forget about libraries, reading actual printed paper for leisure and (in the near future, the way things are going) people who naturally excel in the written world (a lot of introverts prefer writing to talking so there, too, it just goes hand-in-hand) but emerging talent in anything literary should not be overlooked in young talent. Writers can do so much for people if-only people would stock more trust in actual people than flaming Chat GPT (or whatever it’s called; I don’t even know). I get how it can be useful in engineering and that’s fine but let it leave wordy-based jobs alone. That talent’s too viable to be eroded in the next few generations just-because AI’s here now.

[Mystic Mock]

Yep. People who do bits with writing (whether it’s just as a little side-hustle or they’re earning serious buck as a senior linguist, or anything in-between) are usually the type of people who were very good at English in school and people like that have a lot of indispensable value to offer the world in whatever field they go on to specialise in. In an era of AI it’s easier than ever, even if only subtly at this point, to forget about libraries, reading actual printed paper for leisure and (in the near future, the way things are going) people who naturally excel in the written world (a lot of introverts prefer writing to talking so there, too, it just goes hand-in-hand) but emerging talent in anything literary should not be overlooked in young talent. Writers can do so much for people if-only people would stock more trust in actual people than flaming Chat GPT (or whatever it’s called; I don’t even know). I get how it can be useful in engineering and that’s fine but let it leave wordy-based jobs alone. That talent’s too viable to be eroded in the next few generations just-because AI’s here now.

Hopefully laws will be put in place to limit AI's impact on society.

[Redway]

Saudi Arabia. The whole political system of the country is built on nonsense.

[Zizu]

Saudi Arabia. The whole political system of the country is built on nonsense.


It’s exactly the same the world over

‘tis a pity politics was ever invented in the first place


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[Beso]

Putting your playlist on shuffle and getting annoyed when it doesnt play the songs you want.

[Redway]

Songs with slow intros. FFS.

[Redway]

Side-characters in movies who can’t act.

[Zizu]

Songs with slow intros. FFS.



Sounds like you have simply been sucked into this fad for instant gratification


Probably the best song ever had an extremely slow , ponderous intro …..


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[Mystic Mock]

Putting your playlist on shuffle and getting annoyed when it doesnt play the songs you want.

I have just had that happen to me ironically.:laugh:

[Redway]

The fact that (with my bank anyway) it costs a whopping £25 to make an international transfer. Everything is just such a money-making venture in this hyper-capitalistic world. Pay this, pay that, pay additional-fee x, y and z and usage fees beyond the alphabet. This world we live in is just too expensive for no reason.

[Mystic Mock]

The fact that (with my bank anyway) it costs a whopping £25 to make an international transfer. Everything is just such a money-making venture in this hyper-capitalistic world. Pay this, pay that, pay additional-fee x, y and z and usage fees beyond the alphabet. This world we live in is just too expensive for no reason.

Agreed.

And the excuse is always one of three things in this country.

1. Immigrants
2. Inflation
3. Covid

It can never be that the people running some of these businesses are a bunch of Jeremy Hunt's.

[Mystic Mock]

Whenever you say that Video Games currently have poor quality in general, and then the community in general will say that it's more alive than ever because the "Indie" scene is going well, and look I have liked some Indie Games myself in the past, so I'm not being snobby when I say these few things about Indie Games.

1. Indie Games are not the face of the industry (that would be AAA Games) so for the masses that are only casually more into Video Games, will be seeing long release times, buggy launches, poor gameplay a lot of the time for a myriad of different reasons depending on the Game. And a lot of the time even poor storytelling.

2. Like any Video Game, some of these "great" Indie Games aren't going to be great for everyone, so when you factor in subjective taste on top of (in general) broken AAA Games (fair play to anyone that likes these Games) but to me and a fair few other people they are borderline broken Games, or just flat out tedious to play, on top of some Indie Games that personally just don't do it for you, the options of good Video Games for your personal taste is shrinking a fair amount.

3. Some Indie Games are just genuinely ****, I remember playing one where the writing was so small that I couldn't even read it's tutorial at all, which got me stuck in the Game.

4. After playing Haunting Ground recently (made by Capcom back in the PS2 days,) it really reminded me of what AAA Gaming can do when it's actually on form.

It can do the fun gameplay loop that Indie Games are so good at today, and combining it with fun storytelling that makes the characters and world feel more interesting.

And Sword Of The Berserk for the Dreamcast was developed by Yuke's (known for the WWE Games mainly,) and they're again another AAA studio that brought Berserk's fantastic world to life, on top of really fun gameplay.

Tbf the Berserk: Band Of The Hawk Game was fun as well (not as good as Sword Of The Berserk imo) but it was still a fun time, and again it was developed by Omega Force (who develop the Dynasty Warriors Games) and again they were able to do more with it than an Indie studio could.

And look, I don't mean this as an attack on Indie developers, some of them are really good imo (especially in comparison to modern AAA Games,) but I don't believe that the industry should be so overly reliant on Indie Games, remakes, remasters, and certainly not DLC trying to pass themselves off as unofficial Games.:umm2:

AAA Games need to get back on track again with great material that's new for the player to enjoy.

Rant over.

[Redway]

People posting their whole lives on WhatsApp stories. Like, just stop it.

[Niamh.]

I never knew WhatsApp stories existed

[Redway]

This annoying obsession some people have with killing off soap characters for no reason. Can they not just live in peace, on-screen or off-screen?

[hijaxers]

This annoying obsession some people have with killing off soap characters for no reason. Can they not just live in peace, on-screen or off-screen?

Viewers seem very contrary with characters loving them one minute and wishing them dead or killed of the next :laugh:

[Redway]

The way Digital Spy has become such a failed site, removing articles that had been there for years and packing in General Discussion for no reason. The site’s practically unusable these days.

[Beso]

Lots of effort to get socks on, only to stand up after adding your shoes, and feeling that tiny bit of grit that's in your sock.

[Mystic Mock]

The way Digital Spy has become such a failed site, removing articles that had been there for years and packing in General Discussion for no reason. The site’s practically unusable these days.

Sadly every Forum is feeling the pinch a little bit.

DS and TIBB are both doing well to still be around tbh.

[Redway]

When the news keep picking at one particular story so we hardly hear anything-else for the longest time. Okay, we get it. That’s an IT outage for t’time-being. Let’s hear other news while we’re waiting.

People having to resort to manual got a minute while the electronics are down? Well, boo-hoo. Poor them.

Sadly every Forum is feeling the pinch a little bit.

DS and TIBB are both doing well to still be around tbh.

Maybe, but neither of these forums have helped themselves with some of the ludicrous decisions they’ve made over the years. I’m not going to defend that.

[Redway]

The Simpsons becoming more-and-more unsubtle in their jokes, almost to the Family Guy’s extent. Both shows are funny for distinctly different reasons and that’s how it should’ve stayed. But The Simpsons has been veering in that direction more and more since the end of, like, season 16 and it’s reached a point where it’s actually quite odious. Still a good show but some of the forced politically-incorrect humour needs to take a backseat. I don’t like it.

[Redway]

When you’re making a ’phone-call and your ’phone freezes and makes it hard for you to navigate other apps unless you press the side-button (which then cancels the call).

[Beso]

When you’re making a ’phone-call and your ’phone freezes and makes it hard for you to navigate other apps unless you press the side-button (which then cancels the call).

I do that with my go to sleep go to podcasts (usually Ricky stephen and karl) have it all set up on my phone lights off, head on pillow..Then Gervais let's out a really loud guffaw at something karl pilkington has said.


So I reach over in the dark for the volume button, but hot the off button instead. It's like the godfather movies, never heard or seen any of them all once.:blush:

[Mystic Mock]

The Simpsons becoming more-and-more unsubtle in their jokes, almost to the Family Guy’s extent. Both shows are funny for distinctly different reasons and that’s how it should’ve stayed. But The Simpsons has been veering in that direction more and more since the end of, like, season 16 and it’s reached a point where it’s actually quite odious. Still a good show but some of the forced politically-incorrect humour needs to take a backseat. I don’t like it.

I think that all of the outrageous and politically incorrect Animated Comedies have all gone on too long.

We need new ones to be made, but I doubt that America would have the guts to make new funny Animated Comedy Shows.

[Zizu]

I think that all of the outrageous and politically incorrect Animated Comedies have all gone on too long.

We need new ones to be made, but I doubt that America would have the guts to make new funny Animated Comedy Shows.


The only one I really enjoyed was Duckman


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The only one I really enjoyed was Duckman


BH0N-kgMUbA


OsbrxqKS0ec
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Those clips are funny.:laugh:

I've never heard of the Show before, but I will definitely add it to my shortlist of next Shows to watch.

[Gusto Brunt]

When six violent dangerous criminals who were part of a gang who commited the same crime - instead of telling us their individual sentences ranged from 10 years to 17 years - the media will report that the gang were jailed for a total of 124 years.

Absolutely a stupid headline. Totalling up single sentences to get one figure - gives the initial impression they won't get out of jail until 2148.:joker::joker::joker:

[Mystic Mock]

When six violent dangerous criminals who were part of a gang who commited the same crime - instead of telling us their individual sentences ranged from 10 years to 17 years - the media will report that the gang were jailed for a total of 124 years.

Absolutely a stupid headline. Totalling up single sentences to get one figure - gives the initial impression they won't get out of jail until 2148.:joker::joker::joker:

They do that to cover up the fact that the individual sentences that were handed out weren't good enough.

It's atrocious tbh, but it's typical Media reporting in this country.

[Redway]

The way Lois Griffin’s voice can be so nasally can be a real pain in the arse, I’m not gonna lie.

[Livia]

The way Lois Griffin’s voice can be so nasally can be a real pain in the arse, I’m not gonna lie.

But she could have done SOOOOO much better than Peter.

[Redway]

But she could have done SOOOOO much better than Peter.

Their marriage is inexplicable and Peter’s practically the worst protagonist a show can have. Even though I like him in a silly kind of way (he’s funny, like), he’s actually a terrible person.

[Beso]

6 to 8 inch blades.

[Mystic Mock]

But she could have done SOOOOO much better than Peter.

That's true.:laugh:

[Redway]

The fact that with all the mobile-updates that take place every 5 minutes, ITVX remains so user-unfriendly unless you pay Premium.

[Redway]

No but the fact that the likes of Peter of all people think conniving mastermind Stewie’s just a dumb baby.

[Redway]

People who don’t have sharp ears.

[MTVN]

People who don’t have sharp ears.

How do you mean? Some people just done hear as well as others

[Redway]

How do you mean? Some people just done hear as well as others

I mean it how you know I mean it.

[Zizu]

I mean it how you know I mean it.


Sharp ears like Spock or sharp hearing like a meerkat ..


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[MTVN]

I mean it how you know I mean it.

I genuinely have no idea :joker:

[bots]

sharp ears could constantly hear things a semi tone higher or something :laugh:

[Ammi]

…I’m presuming what Redway means is similar to an expression of ‘tone deaf’ not being used in the actual meaning way but being ‘selective in what is heard’ or ignoring something that is said because it doesn’t fit with a narrative/agenda, maybe…?…someone who is insensitive/unaware etc…anyway, my interpretation of not having sharp ears is another expression for ‘tone deaf’….interesting things we learn in other people’s irritations…that’s not an expression I was familiar with…

[Ammi]

…obviously I could be completely wrong in my interpretation and that would be very irritating…

[Zizu]

…I’m presuming what Redway means is similar to an expression of ‘tone deaf’ not being used in the actual meaning way but being ‘selective in what is heard’ or ignoring something that is said because it doesn’t fit with a narrative/agenda, maybe…?…someone who is insensitive/unaware etc…anyway, my interpretation of not having sharp ears is another expression for ‘tone deaf’….interesting things we learn in other people’s irritations…that’s not an expression I was familiar with…


It’s not an expression that anyone has heard as he just messed up


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[Beso]

The person who farts in packs of ham before seeling them for sale.

[Livia]

The Curse of Oak Island. All that digging, all those series... Will they ever find anything and does anyone care?

[Zizu]

The Curse of Oak Island. All that digging, all those series... Will they ever find anything and does anyone care?


Yeah
I was initially intrigued but soon list interest


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[Redway]

I genuinely have no idea :joker:

People who are slow of hearing and need a lot of oral repetition get annoying, whether it’s their fault or not that they don’t hear good. Genuinely don’t know what exactly it is you don’t understand. It’s not rocket-science. Naturally it’s easier and less frustrating communicating with people who aren’t deaf. It might not be their fault that they don’t hear so well but that doesn’t make it any less irritating. Why can’t you understand that?

[MTVN]

People who are slow of hearing and need a lot of oral repetition get annoying, whether it’s their fault or not that they don’t hear good. Genuinely don’t know what exactly it is you don’t understand. It’s not rocket-science. Naturally it’s easier and less frustrating communicating with people who aren’t deaf. It might not be their fault that they don’t hear so well but that doesn’t make it any less irritating. Why can’t you understand that?

Because that seems horrendously intolerant and mean :unsure:

[Alf]

The person who farts in packs of ham before seeling them for sale.I was wondering where that farty smell came from.

Still, it tastes nice between two slices of bread and a dollop of mustard.

[Redway]

Because that seems horrendously intolerant and mean :unsure:

I’m not exactly calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. Just get over yourself, dude. I’m not a monster for having an irritation. As … y’know … humans do.

[Beso]

The Curse of Oak Island. All that digging, all those series... Will they ever find anything and does anyone care?

Theres always the dome..:hehe:

[Beso]

I was wondering where that farty smell came from.

Still, it tastes nice between two slices of bread and a dollop of mustard.

And you don't need to boil an egg, our senses already have that taste sorted.

[Zizu]

People who are slow of hearing and need a lot of oral repetition get annoying, whether it’s their fault or not that they don’t hear good. Genuinely don’t know what exactly it is you don’t understand. It’s not rocket-science. Naturally it’s easier and less frustrating communicating with people who aren’t deaf. It might not be their fault that they don’t hear so well but that doesn’t make it any less irritating. Why can’t you understand that?


The phrase is hard of hearing .. you screwed up and are blaming everyone else


/////

“ people who don’t have sharp ears “

WTF is that all about

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[Beso]

Ammi.

And I aint even joking.

[Livia]

Theres always the dome..:hehe:

The what now?

[Beso]

The what now?

A us tv series where a town had an imprenatble dome round it..I gave up after series one when I was no further forward as to why.

Maybe called, under the dome.

[Zizu]

A us tv series where a town had an imprenatble dome round it..I gave up after series one when I was no further forward as to why.

Maybe called, under the dome.


Wasn’t it just a way of using the popularity of the cop out of Breaking Bad ?


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[Beso]

Wasn’t it just a way of using the popularity of the cop out of Breaking Bad ?


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The reason for the dome?

Dont tell me that's what the dome was for in the end.:shrug:

[Zizu]

The reason for the dome?

Dont tell me that's what the dome was for in the end.:shrug:


Na the series … needed a name to carry it ..

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[Ray.]

Given that the series was based off a Stephen King book which naturally alread has a very large built-in audience, my guessing is that it wasn't merely conceived as just a vehicle for Dean Norris, no.

[Livia]

People who are slow of hearing and need a lot of oral repetition get annoying, whether it’s their fault or not that they don’t hear good. Genuinely don’t know what exactly it is you don’t understand. It’s not rocket-science. Naturally it’s easier and less frustrating communicating with people who aren’t deaf. It might not be their fault that they don’t hear so well but that doesn’t make it any less irritating. Why can’t you understand that?

Surprisingly harsh, Red.

[user104658]

Given that the series was based off a Stephen King book which naturally alread has a very large built-in audience, my guessing is that it wasn't merely conceived as just a vehicle for Dean Norris, no.

I imagine it was why he was cast, though.

As for the show itself I have to agree with the above: the concept is good and on paper should have made for a great "Lost-style" show. In practice it was very, very slow paced and I don't think I even made it through the first season.

[Redway]

1. People thinking it’s acceptable to sneeze into t’open air, especially when you’s tryna eat. Nuh-uh.

2. Cozzy-livs, still. Ever-increasing cost/s of everything takes the piss.

[Mystic Mock]

Stockport
Charlton
Wrexham
Huddersfield.

[Redway]

Ugh; Wrexham. Some of the worst people alive are from there.

[Mystic Mock]

Ugh; Wrexham. Some of the worst people alive are from there.

Those bastards need to move out of our way on the table.:fist::joker:

And seriously, you've had bad experiences in Wrexham? I've never been there, so I can't comment either way.

[Redway]

We don’t always see eye-to-eye but Quantum Boy seemed to have a good explanation why the most incompetent, stupid family men of all time (don’t mind it with Homer Simpson so much but Peter Griffin is just … ugh) seem to earn the right to being the protagonist of some of these shows just because they’re men. I’m a dude but I dunno. I dunno. It just seems subtly misogynistic. Why is that?

[Mystic Mock]

I think that they make them the lead because the writers can create funny scenarios out of them, hence why Comedy Shows existed back then.
Redway

[Livia]

Builders. They irritate me no end, especially when they make you feel like they're doing you a favour while charging top dollar.

[Redway]

This obsession some people have with Shirley coming back to EastEnders. She might be back one day but as far as we know Linda Henry’s abroad and on indefinite leave if we’re being polite. She. Is. Gone. And she ain’t coming back any time soon. Accept it. Get over it.

She played a very rotten, rancid-for-no-reason character in her last 8 or so years anyway. I prefer 2006-12 Shirley. Fresher and not a second-fiddle player to the extended Carters. She had bite but she wasn’t completely foul and ugly with it at that point. Hated 2015-22 Shirley.
Either way, I don’t know why some people can’t just accept that she’s gone and stop pining for her to come back in all sorts of random scenarios.

[Mystic Mock]

People being disliked based purely on appearance.

[Redway]

The fact that so, so many people don’t seem to know that anymore is one word and not two … anymore.

[Redway]

The fact that my most convenient local is absolutely dead on Mondays and Tuesdays.

[Mystic Mock]

Seeing the trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw: Re-Pop, and the developers bragging about how the Re-Pop mode would be less violent.

[Redway]

Stupid ENFP stereotypes.

This video (https://youtu.be/l_g41Dsfnak?si=IHhVGwccBe66tbCI) does a pretty good job of explaining it.

[Benjamin]

When they cancel the train when it’s due.

[Maru]

Upset sinuses. Allergies.

[Redway]

When someone’s making a perfectly good point (in a video, in person; whatever, wherever) and then goes on to ruin it by chatting bull. So now you can’t even share the video (if that’s what it is) with anyone.

[Mystic Mock]

When someone’s making a perfectly good point (in a video, in person; whatever, wherever) and then goes on to ruin it by chatting bull. So now you can’t even share the video (if that’s what it is) with anyone.

Melonie Mac is one that springs to mind for me.

[Mystic Mock]

Sky Sports News.

When you're probably the most lame and cheesy Channel of the 2020's, you know you're extremely lame and cheesy.

[Redway]

When you’re expected to swallow weight from the opinions of members who obviously don’t know you and insult everyone every other day.

[Redway]

People calling depression “fake news”. You don’t understand depression (real, serious depression), you don’t understand mental illness and you’re exposing your ignorance. Everyone don’t gotta be a glorifier of the suited hustle-and-bustle world and fundamentally struggle with empathy. The world needs shrinks, counsellors and empathetic people more than it needs more runners-up for Wall Street and a career that’s more interesting on LinkedIn paper than in reality. And serious depression is almost worse than cancer.

Again, it all comes down to this issue of people lightening and trivialising the word “depression” and thinking it’s a pedestal for people with ‘fake’ issues and minor day-to-day anxieties of life to jump on for sympathy or attention on social media. Severe depression is a completely different kettle of fish and one of the most horrible illnesses someone can have. Often psychotic. In any case way beyond just needing to hit the gym more and remember that other people have it worse than them. You can find that out for yourself if you visit an ECT ward or generally just come close-up to someone suffering with severe depression. Even mild depression, the next step from that is often suicide or at least heart-attack. And that ain’t no joke.
So people really need to stop saying they have “depression and anxiety” or lumping them together too much. It lightens the true meaning of depression, undermines its potential severity and … ya. Plus there are plenty of disorders chilling (or not chilling) in the neighbourhood of “anxiety” so if you’re trying to go anywhere with that, be more specific. Is it generalised anxiety, social anxiety, agoraphobia or regular panic attacks?

I seriously implore anyone who doesn’t believe in depression to visit an inpatient unit for the severely depressed.

“Suicide shouldn’t even be on your mind if you have money.”

When someone’s literally on death’s door and living in a world of nihilistic delusion it’s not really about how many numbers they have in their bank account. But people who don't know much about heavy depression don’t know how far the train goes inside the bottom-most pits of hell and torture. It really is a horrible set of illnesses. If you say otherwise it’s just because you don’t know what severe or even moderate types of depression look like. Simple.

Again. This re-bump is for the exercise-gurus on Instagram threads whose “controversial take” who think that exercise is a better cure for depression than medication. Let’s have it wall-to-wall about severer forms of depression and see how that approach works.

Also. This notion that talking about something a lot or having a lot of knowledge means that you must be somehow personally affected by it. That might be the case but it might-well not.

[Redway]

Lack of basic-propiety manners. Exaggerated coughing, sneezing and burping in public places where people want to eat and drink comfortably. Gross. Sorry but I’m just gonna have to be on one of those rolls today.

[Maru]

Stupid USPS not scanning my package and putting it on a truck already. It's been waiting on their dock since August. But it's coming out of Kentucky so I guess not enough volume for them to pass it on...

It's supposed to be my replacement mats for my cutting machine and they probably put lower priority postage on it.

[Mystic Mock]

Selfies.

No offense to anyone who takes them, but I really hate them.

[Redway]

When things just don’t work in all the ways you’re hoping they do.

[Redway]

Also. This idea that Jake Moon (EastEnders) turning out to be alive after all these years is unrealistic. It was implied that at the least something bad happened to him off-screen but we never actually saw a thing. No-one said the guy was dead.

[Ammi]

Stupid USPS not scanning my package and putting it on a truck already. It's been waiting on their dock since August. But it's coming out of Kentucky so I guess not enough volume for them to pass it on...

It's supposed to be my replacement mats for my cutting machine and they probably put lower priority postage on it.

…in general I don’t know what kind of service UPS give in the States and it’ll probably vary from State to State ….but my own experiences of them is that they’re never without an ‘event’…:laugh:…most other delivery companies are pretty straight forward but UPS just never is …they’re not major things that can’t be resolved but they’re just…avoidable silly things, like only delivering ‘1 of 2’ parcels and the other being deliver several days later…that’s just one thing that comes to mind…anyways, not many companies seem to use them in the UK but as I say…my own experience of them seems to always have an ‘event’ attached to them…:laugh:…I hope that your parcel arrives soon…

[Maru]

…in general I don’t know what kind of service UPS give in the States and it’ll probably vary from State to State ….but my own experiences of them is that they’re never without an ‘event’…:laugh:…most other delivery companies are pretty straight forward but UPS just never is …they’re not major things that can’t be resolved but they’re just…avoidable silly things, like only delivering ‘1 of 2’ parcels and the other being deliver several days later…that’s just one thing that comes to mind…anyways, not many companies seem to use them in the UK but as I say…my own experience of them seems to always have an ‘event’ attached to them…:laugh:…I hope that your parcel arrives soon…

USPS is our post office (US Postal Service), so like Royal Mail. If only it were UPS, Ammi. :laugh: I am just grateful tracking is working at all and it isn't stopped somewhere random.

[Redway]

People who lack basic sympathy/empathy.

[Mystic Mock]

People that moan about mature content.

[Maru]

Ammi Whinging worked:

https://i.postimg.cc/26pQDVxZ/Untitled-1.jpg

[Mystic Mock]

Congratulations Maru

[Ammi]

USPS is our post office (US Postal Service), so like Royal Mail. If only it were UPS, Ammi. :laugh: I am just grateful tracking is working at all and it isn't stopped somewhere random.
….ooooop, my bad….UPS we’re in my head as I read it so I read it as that…


Ammi Whinging worked:

https://i.postimg.cc/26pQDVxZ/Untitled-1.jpg

…yay Maru for world class winge-ing…:laugh:…I’m glad it’s almost with you, that’s a really good feeling for you…:love:…(…maybe some of the US postal officials are TiBB members and saw your post, hmmmmmmm….)….

[Maru]

Congratulations Maru

Thanks :love:

….ooooop, my bad….UPS we’re in my head as I read it so I read it as that…




…yay Maru for world class winge-ing…:laugh:…I’m glad it’s almost with you, that’s a really good feeling for you…:love:…(…maybe some of the US postal officials are TiBB members and saw your post, hmmmmmmm….)….

A supervisor woke up the person on the dock and got them to move it. Fantastic. I was thinking it might take a whole month. It wouldn't have been surprising, anyway. As long as it gets here before Christmas, I guess :laugh:

[Ammi]

Thanks :love:



A supervisor woke up the person on the dock and got them to move it. Fantastic. I was thinking it might take a whole month. It wouldn't have been surprising, anyway. As long as it gets here before Christmas, I guess :laugh:

…oh I’m hoping for a long time before Christmas…let’s hope for before the end of September…?…:fingers crossed gif:….

[Maru]

I don't really run into this problem but I thought it was funny...

https://i.postimg.cc/1zMRKx7g/img-1-1726591216054.jpg

[Maru]

…oh I’m hoping for a long time before Christmas…let’s hope for before the end of September…?…:fingers crossed gif:….

It received a date of Monday and is comically asserting it is now running late... after being very late. It'll get here soon, though. Whatever "soon" ends up being.

[Ammi]

It received a date of Monday and is comically asserting it is now running late... after being very late. It'll get here soon, though. Whatever "soon" ends up being.

…with your tales of the US postal service, I think it sounds as though ‘soon’ could be a very open ended interpretation…we know that soon isn’t Monday because you’ve already been told that it’s running late from the due date of Monday…Im thinking that soon isn’t Tuesday either because they didn’t state one day late, they just said late…so Tuesday can be crossed off as a possibility as well…maybe cross through the days that it isn’t or unlikely to be and then you’ll finally solve the mystery of when soon is…?…:laugh:…

[Maru]

…with your tales of the US postal service, I think it sounds as though ‘soon’ could be a very open ended interpretation…we know that soon isn’t Monday because you’ve already been told that it’s running late from the due date of Monday…Im thinking that soon isn’t Tuesday either because they didn’t state one day late, they just said late…so Tuesday can be crossed off as a possibility as well…maybe cross through the days that it isn’t or unlikely to be and then you’ll finally solve the mystery of when soon is…?…:laugh:…

I imagine a package moving across the system looks something like this:

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZTc0ZTh2Mjc2eXkzZ25qZTJ3bDA5Mnc zc2U2bGd3ZzNnbXR2MjBtYSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/uXbXCQ9c3irpC/giphy.gif

*
https://i.postimg.cc/Kjdv3WWf/usps.jpg

[Ammi]

I imagine a package moving across the system looks something like this:

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZTc0ZTh2Mjc2eXkzZ25qZTJ3bDA5Mnc zc2U2bGd3ZzNnbXR2MjBtYSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/uXbXCQ9c3irpC/giphy.gif

*
https://i.postimg.cc/Kjdv3WWf/usps.jpg

…:laugh:…heading to Maru’s house right now…

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM24zamw2NTV6c3RjN20waDNpYWJnczF 0bTJxczN1bHNwZG81OWphcyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/XzoxWNYbWd8jomM6Qx/giphy.gif

…estimated delivery date….SOON….:fan:…

…you’re so fabulously cheerful about it all, Maru…:love:…which is obviously the way to be because what can you do….

[Redway]

The Internet connection on your ’phone working smoothly anywhere and everywhere but the warm comfort of your own home, and your WiFi’s down. Talk about bad luck.

[Ammi]

The Internet connection on your ’phone working smoothly anywhere and everywhere but the warm comfort of your own home, and your WiFi’s down. Talk about bad luck.

…the Gods of the internet/wi fi can be very cruel, Redway…

[Mystic Mock]

The state of Japanese Anime.

[Maru]

…:laugh:…heading to Maru’s house right now…

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM24zamw2NTV6c3RjN20waDNpYWJnczF 0bTJxczN1bHNwZG81OWphcyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/XzoxWNYbWd8jomM6Qx/giphy.gif

…estimated delivery date….SOON….:fan:…

…you’re so fabulously cheerful about it all, Maru…:love:…which is obviously the way to be because what can you do….

This, exactly. It's still the same status :hee: ... "Coming soon to a mailbox near you"

Hopefully it's my mailbox this time. (There's a legitimate reason for why it gets misplaced though)

The state of Japanese Anime.

I haven't watched in years (with what time?) but I go to a convention every year for Artist Alley. So I've no idea the current state of anime... I'm old enough to have downloaded new episodes subbed by volunteers through IRC channels full of Fserves... the current state of J-pop though... sigh...

Hub watched Spy x Family though and keeps trying to force a thumbdrive with it at me to watch it...

Edit: Rethinking, I do watch Cdrama, but it's an easier binge and sometimes mostly in longer clips. It's hard to follow anything with subtitles.

[Mystic Mock]

This, exactly. It's still the same status :hee: ... "Coming soon to a mailbox near you"

Hopefully it's my mailbox this time. (There's a legitimate reason for why it gets misplaced though)



I haven't watched in years (with what time?) but I go to a convention every year for Artist Alley. So I've no idea the current state of anime... I'm old enough to have downloaded new episodes subbed by volunteers through IRC channels full of Fserves... the current state of J-pop though... sigh...

Hub watched Spy x Family though and keeps trying to force a thumbdrive with it at me to watch it...

Edit: Rethinking, I do watch Cdrama, but it's an easier binge and sometimes mostly in longer clips. It's hard to follow anything with subtitles.

I would say with modern Anime that it's decent still in general, but it's lacking that killer edge Anime if that makes sense?

Because even American Live Action has Shogun as an epic tale, and Fallout for that zany vibe that can be good in it's own way.

Where as a lot of current Animes have the depth of a puddle.

Having said that I haven't watched Spy x Family, but it does look like the kind of Anime that I'm kind of talking about being a negative for the industry imo.

[Ammi]

…hoping and wishing for today to be that SOON day, Maru…

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExdWFobjVxY2M2bzg4YmN4ZDdwbnk5dTB qZmhzNGJ0aTdyd2Jrc2VlMSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l0NwNrl4BtDD7JCx2/giphy.gif

[Livia]

I'll tell you what irritates my Dad, that advert with Slade... "We were a noisy generation..." He always shouts "When did Slade ever have a keyboard player?!"

[Redway]

Bait-announcements that there’s another vicious Covid variant about to do the rounds and no follow-up anywhere in the days to come, probably because it’s all nonsense at this point and they know it. Still trying to scare people nearly 5 years later.

[Mystic Mock]

Bait-announcements that there’s another vicious Covid variant about to do the rounds and no follow-up anywhere in the days to come, probably because it’s all nonsense at this point and they know it. Still trying to scare people nearly 5 years later.

This.

[Mystic Mock]

Also if I hear about Oasis reuniting off Sky Sports one more time, I will smash my TV.

The channel is called Sky Sports News, not Sky Oasis News.

[Redway]

Santander’s over-protectiveness when it comes to wiring money across to people.

“You do know that you get impersonators pretending to be friends, family and companies, right.”

I know but I’m also pretty sure I know the identity of this friend I borrowed or lent £20 to or fro(m) t’other day. Back off with the over-security.

[Redway]

Coffee-shops where everywhere’s either occupied or too dirty to sit. How does that work? What would Kim and Aggie say?

[Redway]

Adverts I HATE popping up all the time.

[Redway]

People worrying about the future state of pubs and the dying breed of the establishment but also never going in except across the weekend, so much that the pub then decides they might as well shut on certain days. It’s your local. Show it some respec. if you still want it to stand a chance of being around in 10 years. Don’t complain about the pub being dead throughout the week but also contribute to the problem when you’re burning the little leftover pennies you have elsewhere.

[Maru]

My package came (finally) today. One day shy of a month. Of course it was damaged, it looked like it got bent in a corner from the machine sorter. Thankfully the mat I needed the most on the inside could be bent into mostly perfect flatness and it's just a minor kink. The other one has actual indent, but I think it could be fine with some convincing+heat... even better the label was their "advantage" ground service, so it should've been here on time. So someone done goofed.

[Maru]

Coffee-shops where everywhere’s either occupied or too dirty to sit. How does that work? What would Kim and Aggie say?

I sit at a donut shop 1-2x a week with my daughter and I bring cleaning wipes everywhere I go. It's almost always clean, but nothing like sitting at an especially clean table enjoying your very important coffee and donuts... :love:

[GoldHeart]

Not sure if I've mentioned this before,but the unisex single toilet in coffee shops,after a man has used it because 9/10 times he will always leave the seat up, so I will use my foot to close the seat ( as I'm not touching that bacteria infested thing) ...even though I hover over it ....as I don't sit on public loos :yuk: . But it's proper etiquette to put the seat down you would think .But I haven't been to coffee shops for a while.

Another annoying thing...is when passengers stand right at the front of buses,but they have no intention of getting off @ the next stop :rolleyes:... the bus isn't even always full ,yet they stand at the front like they're inspecting the driver.

[Redway]

What bothers me about certain men’s toilets is that sometimes a dude won’t even flush.

[Ammi]

My package came (finally) today. One day shy of a month. Of course it was damaged, it looked like it got bent in a corner from the machine sorter. Thankfully the mat I needed the most on the inside could be bent into mostly perfect flatness and it's just a minor kink. The other one has actual indent, but I think it could be fine with some convincing+heat... even better the label was their "advantage" ground service, so it should've been here on time. So someone done goofed.

I sit at a donut shop 1-2x a week with my daughter and I bring cleaning wipes everywhere I go. It's almost always clean, but nothing like sitting at an especially clean table enjoying your very important coffee and donuts... :love:

…I’m glad that your mat came and you can begin the process of repairing it…a repairable mat is better than no mat at all, so the saying goes…and coffee/doughnuts/daughters…sublime …:love:…

[Livia]

What bothers me about certain men’s toilets is that sometimes a dude won’t even flush.

My brother tells me that there's a gents in Chelmsford where a woman will come and mop around your feet while you're having a wee.

[GoldHeart]

My brother tells me that there's a gents in Chelmsford where a woman will come and mop around your feet while you're having a wee.

That's too far & intrusive , the whole point of cleaning is
to do it when people have left or haven't arrived yet . They need to fix the cleaning time table, ridiculous.

I remember being in a office once ...and for some damn reason they got a cleaner in whilst we were trying to

work , I had to get up and move whilst she cleaned around the desk area and floor . I don't understand why
some places do that , it's so inconvenient & really awkward :bored: .

I'm sure I saw a gym video ,where a man was hoovering
around a guy who was exercising.... like wtf :rolleyes: lol.

[Livia]

That's too far & intrusive , the whole point of cleaning is
to do it when people have left or haven't arrived yet . They need to fix the cleaning time table, ridiculous.

I remember being in a office once ...and for some damn reason they got a cleaner in whilst we were trying to

work , I had to get up and move whilst she cleaned around the desk area and floor . I don't understand why
some places do that , it's so inconvenient & really awkward :bored: .

I'm sure I saw a gym video ,where a man was hoovering
around a guy who was exercising.... like wtf :rolleyes: lol.

I've never had to move in an office for a cleaner. I do appreciate them though... You get in the office in the morning and it's like the cleaning fairy has been.

My brother's never used that particular toilet again. He said he was mortified.... Imagine if it was a bloke in a female toilet mopping around.

[GoldHeart]

I've never had to move in an office for a cleaner. I do appreciate them though... You get in the office in the morning and it's like the cleaning fairy has been.

My brother's never used that particular toilet again. He said he was mortified.... Imagine if it was a bloke in a female toilet mopping around.

Exactly, they'd be complaints I would imagine.

[Redway]

Americans thinking The Simpsons (as great a show as it is at its core) is the longest-running show in the history of TV.

Erm, no. Just no. Get your facts checked. Watch an episode of Corrie, for its sins.
Longest-running cartoon/animated series, maybe.

[Niamh.]

Americans thinking The Simpsons (as great a show as it is at its core) is the longest-running show in the history of TV.

Erm, no. Just no. Get your facts checked. Watch an episode of Corrie, for its sins.
Longest-running cartoon/animated series, maybe.Tbh it does pop up when you ask Google, Corrie is under longest running soap opera

[Redway]

My brother tells me that there's a gents in Chelmsford where a woman will come and mop around your feet while you're having a wee.

That’s really unsettling.

[Gusto Brunt]

Radio adverts are paricularly annoying at the moment. Rob Brydon's Spec Savers ad makes me want to smash my radio to pieces. :mad:

That IKEA ad, with that bloke talking slow. Soooooooooooooooo annoying. :mad:

And a few others.:fist:

[Kate!]

Getting the sniffles when the weather changes at this time of year

[Maru]

Getting the sniffles when the weather changes at this time of year

Agreed. Whatever was going around near us lasted some two weeks. Thankfully we live far apart. Hope you feel better soon.

[Kate!]

Agreed. Whatever was going around near us lasted some two weeks. Thankfully we live far apart. Hope you feel better soon.

Thank you. I feel fine really, it's just niggling.

[Ray.]

When you're arguing your pov and any degree of capitulation for a chance at moving forwards is instead thrown back in your face with a passive-aggressive comeback or another attempt at one-upmanship. So tiresome and a prime example of why I usually don't care to debate others on anything.

[Redway]

People who are messy when it comes to eating crisps. Truly disgusting.

T’sight of it on the floor’s put me off my morning coffee now.

[Ammi]

People who are messy when it comes to eating crisps. Truly disgusting.

T’sight of it on the floor’s put me off my morning coffee now.

…I think for me…?…any irritation attached to crisp eating would be a noise thing…it’s one of the main things with BB, eating with the microphones on and us hearing every crunch and every swallow etc…please don’t…

[Nicky91]

more like big things that irritate me

me being accused of supporting terrorist groups (which i don't)

me being misunderstood oh so ******* easily

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Someone that doesn't say hello back when you start your message with hello.

[Ray.]

Someone that doesn't say hello back when you start your message with hello.

You say, "Goodbye" and I say, "Hello, hello, hello" :shrug:

[Zizu]

You say, "Goodbye" and I say, "Hello, hello, hello" :shrug:


Fantastic song incidentally

https://youtu.be/P2C3f0Atcoo?si=f-lfaVtmOXWl6FPU

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[fredmeneedle]

Waiters coming round to check how your food is. I know it's well intentioned but I swear they always time it so you have a gobfull of food in your mouth when they ask, you either have to risk answering with your mouth full or deal with them staring at you as you chew and swallow before replying

In all my years I also don't think I've given any other reply but 'yeah fine thanks'

Also typically they ask when your meal is at least half eaten... my usual answer is "trust me, if I had a problem with my meal I would not be waiting for you to ask!" but I do try to temper the abruptness with a half-smile....

[Kate!]

People who are messy when it comes to eating crisps. Truly disgusting.

T’sight of it on the floor’s put me off my morning coffee now.

Eek! I'm guilty as charged when I'm eating crisps.

:joker:

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Entitled colleagues. Move from me!

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

People that sip tea loudly...hush up!

[Redway]

People making you feel like a demon for not liking dogs (no, I’m not talking about Brian Griffin, obvs). Like everything-else, people have their preferences. It’s not a crime to find dogs annoying any more than it is to be semi-phobic of spiders.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

When articles have loads and loads of ads and you can't even read the page properly or prevent yourself from accidentally clicking on an ad!!! And some of them you can't even x out of the way anymore!

[Redway]

https://youtu.be/YBOfgTP0nVg?si=2gf3HRzefaQgqn7o

Just putting this out there for anyone who thinks depression is a mild mental illness. Try visiting an ECT ward where there are people with Cotard’s syndrome hallucinating hell fire and believing they don’t exist, that the Earth’s been sucked into an existence-sucking vacuum, all-the-while without having eaten for a month. This is what we talk about when we say severe depression. I can’t stress that enough. There’s a difference between ‘mild depression and anxiety x’ that’s at a level where ignorant people believe they can just pull themselves out of it and all the difference shades of serious, endogenous depression that’s moderate to severe. The first type of depression is the type that the general public who have no idea how severe it can be at the other end of the spectrum understand it. That’s almost nothing compared to real depression. Even the next step from mild depression is suicide, and people feeling like they want to out themselves should absolutely be given love and support, but for those who stay alive it doesn’t end there. Likewise, at one end of the depressive-treatment regime-spectrum is citalopram and at the other end is tranylycpromine and ECT. There’s a massive range of types, symptoms and severities and the treatment reflects that.

And I’m never gonna be fully rested on this topic until ignorance about depression is fully squished out. Educate people on the severity of it and not just the fact that talking helps and it’s not just a matter of willpower. So it is worth repeating.

[Mystic Mock]

Being accused of things and then when you answer back, that person goes hiding away.

Let's just say that experience isn't fun.:laugh:

[Redway]

Big Brother being on ITVX this year, actually. That doesn’t help with the feeling of it being such a different show these days and not for the better. Haven’t really sat down to get glued up on it yet (just a few episodes here-and-there) but yeah. It’s just odd that it’s on ITVX (a very non-user-friendly app in the first place) now.

[Redway]

Being accused of things and then when you answer back, that person goes hiding away.

Let's just say that experience isn't fun.:laugh:

You mean like when you’re telling the truth but the person never believes you?

[Mystic Mock]

You mean like when you’re telling the truth but the person never believes you?

The person just ignores you after accusing you of something that you don't believe yourself to be.

[Redway]

The person just ignores you after accusing you of something that you don't believe yourself to be.

Right.

Happen to you recently, did it?

[Mystic Mock]

Right.

Happen to you recently, did it?

You could certainly say that.

What about you, have you experienced anything similar recently?

[Redway]

You could certainly say that.

What about you, have you experienced anything similar recently?

Erm. I suppose I have been in the position where it’s been my word against someone-else’s and I haven’t been fully believed but that was quite a few months ago now. It wasn’t super-recent.

Ultimately it was about something very trivial. Nothing that deep, but either way I still wasn’t fully believed, whatever happened next.

[Mystic Mock]

Erm. I suppose I have been in the position where it’s been my word against someone-else’s and I haven’t been fully believed but that was quite a few months ago now. It wasn’t super-recent.

Ultimately it was about something very trivial. Nothing that deep, but either way I still wasn’t fully believed, whatever happened next.

Okay, I can understand that as I have experienced that recently.

I'm still okay with the person, but I won't tolerate that behaviour towards me again.

[Zizu]

When articles have loads and loads of ads and you can't even read the page properly or prevent yourself from accidentally clicking on an ad!!! And some of them you can't even x out of the way anymore!


When articles have loads and loads of ads and you can't even read the page properly or prevent yourself from accidentally clicking on an ad!!! And some of them you can't even x out of the way anymore!


Yes !!!

Those pages drive me to distraction !!
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[Redway]

The amount of unnecessary cutaways on Family Guy can be hella annoying, still.

[Redway]

“Yeah, I thought he was black, still; just with one white parent, innit.”

Abeg, black is black and mixed race is mixed race. They are not the same thing at all. When you’re 3/4 black it’s a different story but when you’re exactly 50-50, that’s what you are. A lot of purely white people do it as a subconscious relic from the one-drop rule principle, which is inherently racist. You won’t accept them as your own so of course they have to be black. Same goes for quadroons (and by extension probably even octoroons, people who are only 1/8 black) who look closer to mixed race than black being forced by white people to identify as black. So racist. So inherently, disgustingly racist and white hegemonic. Many more people than you know are mixed with something/have backgrounds that are somewhat or at least a little heterogenous. What they choose to identify as is a very personal, individual thing. Mixed-race people are not inherently black just because the average white person says so. Having a Jamaican great-aunt and a like of plantain doesn’t inherently mean “yeah, you’re basically black”.

Anyway, that one ain’t a little ting.

[Mystic Mock]

“Yeah, I thought he was black, still; just with one white parent, innit.”

Abeg, black is black and mixed race is mixed race. They are not the same thing at all. When you’re 3/4 black it’s a different story but when you’re exactly 50-50, that’s what you are. A lot of purely white people do it as a subconscious relic from the one-drop rule principle, which is inherently racist. You won’t accept them as your own so of course they have to be black. Same goes for quadroons (and by extension probably even octoroons, people who are only 1/8 black) who look closer to mixed race than black being forced by white people to identify as black. So racist. So inherently, disgustingly racist and white hegemonic. Many more people than you know are mixed with something/have backgrounds that are somewhat or at least a little heterogenous. What they choose to identify as is a very personal, individual thing. Mixed-race people are not inherently black just because the average white person says so. Having a Jamaican great-aunt and a like of plantain doesn’t inherently mean “yeah, you’re basically black”.

Anyway, that one ain’t a little ting.

Tbf, there are some mixed race people out there that do like to identify as black.

To me I just like to try and focus on the person rather than on the colour of their skin, unless it's under a scenario where I have to describe the person's appearance.

[Zizu]

“Yeah, I thought he was black, still; just with one white parent, innit.”

Abeg, black is black and mixed race is mixed race. They are not the same thing at all. When you’re 3/4 black it’s a different story but when you’re exactly 50-50, that’s what you are. A lot of purely white people do it as a subconscious relic from the one-drop rule principle, which is inherently racist. You won’t accept them as your own so of course they have to be black. Same goes for quadroons (and by extension probably even octoroons, people who are only 1/8 black) who look closer to mixed race than black being forced by white people to identify as black. So racist. So inherently, disgustingly racist and white hegemonic. Many more people than you know are mixed with something/have backgrounds that are somewhat or at least a little heterogenous. What they choose to identify as is a very personal, individual thing. Mixed-race people are not inherently black just because the average white person says so. Having a Jamaican great-aunt and a like of plantain doesn’t inherently mean “yeah, you’re basically black”.

Anyway, that one ain’t a little ting.


Loads of people consider themselves to be black if they have one parent though - their choice I suppose


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[Zizu]

Tbf, there are some mixed race people out there that do like to identify as black.

To me I just like to try and focus on the person rather than on the colour of their skin, unless it's under a scenario where I have to describe the person's appearance.


You beat me to it although I wrote this about 4 hours ago and didn’t press REPLY. I initially thought my post had been deleted …

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[Oliver_W]

I'm quite chill really, most things wash over me. But some little inconsequential things do irk me somewhat, like when people don't end sentences with full stops. Sometimes emojies are used instead ("even" by me!) but leaving the last sentence just hanging looks horrible.

[Redway]

Seriously, Peter Griffin being the protagonist of Family Guy. It’s offensive.

[Redway]

The end of Lily Allen’s “Interlude”. What’s that about?

[Maru]

I bought two very nice (and light!) 48oz water bottles to apply name decals to for my inlaws who are coming to visit soon. I saw them on clearance and thought that would be a good idea for them while they were here. Anyway, I go to peel back the labeling which is substantial and it's CAKED in adhesive... so now I"m sitting here to roll it away with my thumb and it's very annoying. I'll have to clean it really good before I can apply the vinyl...

[Redway]

Ali, you had the opportunity to say to Lily up-front that you (along-wit. t. rest of t’house) find her screaming annoying. Why lie to her face after saying you were gonna talk to her (regardless of nominations)?