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Redway
22-05-2025, 01:51 PM
People who try and bribe kids with money. Ugh, Joe Tate, you devil.
Redway
22-05-2025, 07:02 PM
The over-use of the word “icon” when it comes to describing soap characters. Bernadette Taylor isn’t an icon, man. Come on. She might not be bumping chess-pieces with Ted during those wretched first-few months of 2018 and Clenshaw may have tapped into her potential more than former EPs but she is not an icon. She’s no Angie Watts or Phil Mitchell.
On that theme
The overuse of the word NARRATIVE !!!
It was very rarely used but nowadays its used all over the damn place especially in news items
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Redway
25-05-2025, 04:28 PM
A pub’s ability to accept card payments being at the mercy of the strength of their Wi-Fi is incredibly annoying. I’m not the sort of person who often carries around cash unless there’s a specific reason for it. It’s so inconvenient being told “cash only” when you’re not anticipating that in advance.
Redway
25-05-2025, 10:35 PM
Binance’s long-arse re-verification-process. I’ve given them everything and their response is either that the picture I took isn’t clear enough or that it’s photocopied. It just makes no sense, and I’ve been having issues converting USDT to GBP to withdraw into my account for the longest time anyway. I just can’t be arsed with them no-more. Useless site.
I initially read that as Beyonce’s long arse
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Mystic Mock
26-05-2025, 06:09 AM
When people say "happiest of Birthdays" or "love you lots jelly tots"
This sounds like a crime has been committed.:joker:
Mystic Mock
26-05-2025, 06:11 AM
…tbf I think she might say it because she knows that it’s annoying…:laugh:…
Does she like the Savage Garden song?:laugh:
Mystic Mock
26-05-2025, 06:12 AM
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I can fix her.:joker:
Redway
26-05-2025, 09:58 PM
Medication coming with advice not to drink alcohol. The only time that’s really necessary is in the case of certain anti-biotics and certain benzos. You don’t have to become teetotal and give up a huge chunk of your social life’s vitality (if that’s you) in the name of some medication that’s actually a lot more forgiving to alcohol than a lot of pharmacists and GPs feel like they have to point out. You don’t have to give up on having fun like that in the name of medication. All the pearl-clutching and fluff just isn’t needed.
Medication coming with advice not to drink alcohol. The only time that’s really necessary is in the case of certain anti-biotics and certain benzos. You don’t have to become teetotal and give up a huge chunk of your social life’s vitality (if that’s you) in the name of some medication that’s actually a lot more forgiving to alcohol than a lot of pharmacists and GPs feel like they have to point out. You don’t have to give up on having fun like that in the name of medication. All the pear-clutching and fluff just isn’t needed.
…well as you say, there are certain medications when alcohol is added that can have an adverse effect but I guess the recommended no drinking is for the best effectiveness of the medication…and just in case someone suffered side effects through mixing alcohol…
Redway
27-05-2025, 04:49 PM
…well as you say, there are certain medications when alcohol is added that can have an adverse effect but I guess the recommended no drinking is for the best effectiveness of the medication…and just in case someone suffered side effects through mixing alcohol…
Yeah, some people are particularly sensitive to the effects of alcohol when mixed with some other drugs but expecting people to give up alcohol together (even on Christmas Day) all in the name of side-effects they probably won’t get (maybe not even a hangover in the first place) is just too pearl-clutchy for me and not applicable in the majority of cases. It’s better when healthcare providers state the actual risks as they are, without fluff. Sometimes the medication doesn’t even work well enough for it to be worth the sacrifice of having to stick to over-priced J20 and tap-water at the pub.
I say all that as someone who’s fundamentally very anti-hypocrisy when it comes to the divide between alcohol and other (often far less inherently harmful) drugs but at the same time I’m very far from teetotal. No medication for me, as it stands at the moment, would be worth me completely cutting out alcohol, especially when it’s not actually strictly necessary. It’s like trigger-warnings on ITVX. A sensitive minority might appreciate it but most people know what to expect with these shows in all the decades they’ve been on-screen and wouldn’t bat an eyelid. I think it’s the same principle behind informed consent, that people could be told what the actual risk is in individual context, not just the worst-case scenario. The way alcohol’s so deeply embedded in British culture especially, for better or worse, just makes it impractical and unrealistic for people to be expected to give up booze in the name of medication when it’s not absolutely necessary.
Yeah, some people are particularly sensitive to the effects of alcohol when mixed with some other drugs but expecting people to give up alcohol together (even on Christmas Day) all in the name of side-effects they probably won’t get (maybe not even a hangover in the first place) is just too pearl-clutchy for me and not applicable in the majority of cases. It’s better when healthcare providers state the actual risks as they are, without fluff. Sometimes the medication doesn’t even work well enough for it to be worth the sacrifice of having to stick to over-priced J20 and tap-water at the pub.
I say all that as someone who’s fundamentally very anti-hypocrisy when it comes to the divide between alcohol and other (often far less inherently harmful) drugs but at the same time I’m very far from teetotal. No medication for me, as it stands at the moment, would be worth me completely cutting out alcohol, especially when it’s not actually strictly necessary. It’s like trigger-warnings on ITVX. A sensitive minority might appreciate it but most people know what to expect with these shows in all the decades they’ve been on-screen and wouldn’t bat an eyelid. I think it’s the same principle behind informed consent, that people could be told what the actual risk is in individual context, not just the worst-case scenario. The way alcohol’s so deeply embedded in British culture especially, for better or worse, just makes it impractical and unrealistic for people to be expected to give up booze in the name of medication when it’s not absolutely necessary.
…realistically I think that it’s probably realised that most wouldn’t abstain from alcohol completely but I guess that it’s given more for disclaimer purposes…?…if they didn’t recommend it and state that the combination could have a health impact or reduce/void the efficiency of the medication etc…?..then the companies would become more libel if they didn’t state these things…?…(…I’m thinking…)…
Redway
30-05-2025, 12:22 PM
The fact that regular subscription isn’t enough for Cassandra Mack’s channel anymore. She’s now got an insiders’ club-requirement for certain videos, no-doubt a fair bit more expensive.
Who the feck is Cassandra Mack !?
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Every time I choose to read your posts just reminds me of why I have you on my ignore-list. I obviously didn’t make a mistake.
Well I googled that name and it came up with some old author who writes about women’s rights or something … sooo I presumed it wasn’t her ..
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Redway
30-05-2025, 02:54 PM
Well I googled that name and it came up with some old author who writes about women’s rights or something … sooo I presumed it wasn’t her ..
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YouTube her if you really want to know.
Redway
30-05-2025, 02:55 PM
Misogynistic men who take the Biblical passage about the husband being the head of the wife out of context and extend it in-general, even to women who are older than them. Marriage is one very particular context. The Bible doesn’t endorse wannabe alpha-males with ego issues, whether or not the bit about marital headship/neck-ship is even taken at its word.
YouTube her if you really want to know.
I shall
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Redway
30-05-2025, 04:14 PM
Not an irritant or really an issue at-all but when it comes to cooking jollof rice, using aluminum foil to trap in the steam (when the want arises) is still the default. But parchment paper’s actually healthier, and as far as I can tell gives off the same results. I’d rather use parchment paper and (occasionally) uma leaves than foil, to be quite honest.
Redway
30-05-2025, 06:36 PM
People who constantly spit.
Like, seriously, stop. Just stop.
???
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Redway
30-05-2025, 07:09 PM
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Your perplexity with social sub-text isn’t my problem. I really don’t understand you.
Your perplexity with social sub-text isn’t my problem. I really don’t understand you.
#1023 you quoted your own post yet I’m at fault for not understanding why
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Mystic Mock
31-05-2025, 08:52 AM
When people keep repeating the same question that they've asked five times prior on the same day.:laugh:
Redway
31-05-2025, 04:26 PM
#1023 you quoted your own post yet I’m at fault for not understanding why
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Because it’s obvious what i was doing to anyone with an ounce of social understanding. I know you have autism but your social cluelessness is infuriating at times. That’s why I don’t like to engage with you. Every time i choose to view your posts just confirms that putting you on my ignore-list was the right decision.
Because it’s obvious what i was doing to anyone with an ounce of social understanding. I know you have autism but your social cluelessness is infuriating at times. That’s why I don’t like to engage with you. Every time i choose to view your posts just confirms that putting you on my ignore-list was the right decision.
I still don’t know why you replied to yourself and even dissed yourself ?
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Redway
31-05-2025, 07:04 PM
I’m not even going to read this post of yours. It’s your problem if you want to stay confused over the simplest of things. You’re annoying, regardless of being neurodivergent.
I’m not even going to read this post of yours. It’s your problem if you want to stay confused over the simplest of things. You’re annoying, regardless of being neurodivergent.
Thanks
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Does anyone else know why Redneck replied to himself and with a negativity comment ?
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Redway
31-05-2025, 08:44 PM
Keep ranting to yourself in needless perplexity. I’m not viewing your posts. Boundary set, conversation over. You’re not wasting any more of my time with your cluelessness and ridiculous questions. Your social obliviousness (which is another little thing that irritates me) is not my problem.
Redway
01-06-2025, 03:59 PM
Places being under-staffed, and everything in the environment down to the kindly old fella/lady who wants a bit of a gab with the one person who is serving (and holding up the queue in the process), compounding on that. It’s not respectful to the time of the person behind the till/wherever and it’s not respectful to the time of customers, either. No-matter how patient some people might be, not everyone actually has the time to wait. Patient or not.
Kate!
01-06-2025, 04:29 PM
People misunderstanding Zizu.
Redway
01-06-2025, 04:47 PM
People misunderstanding Zizu.
The issue I have with Zizu cuts across many corners and he knows he doesn’t help himself by the way he cuts in deliberately to express confusion with basic subtext, and he has some questionable views in-general that have nothing to do with his autism. He’s just not someone I gel with, and he knows that. He just chooses to persistently ignore that boundary, acting like it’s on everyone-else to accommodate deliberate behaviour and dodgy opinions just-because his condition affects him in certain ways.
I respect you, Kate, but I can’t apologise for not liking him. We just don’t gel, and not all of that is because of the way his ASD affects him. He’s not totally innocent in it all and I have to be firm on that. The way his neurodivergence affects him explains some things but not everything, because we’re all fundamentally people before our neurotype or preferred ways of communicating. Constantly forcing himself into conversations that have nothing to do with him and pretending not to understand basic sub-text as far as I’m concerned might as well be deliberate in his case, because he knows I have boundaries with him. He just ignores them, and that’s deliberate. It’s being wilfully provocative and expecting immunity from some basic accountability just-because he’s neurodivergent (which practically half the planet seems to be at this point). Naturally, I don’t want to lose friends over this but as far as Zizu’s concerned I just can’t be nice about this anymore.
Weaponising ambiguity to maintain a foothold in conversations that clearly don’t involve him, gaslighting people, objectifying women, ignoring boundaries over and over again, thinking he’s entitled to preferential communication-treatment tailored just for him, that’s … that’s manipulative, entitled, misogynistic. Not just quirky neurodivergence. I just think he’s a really toxic drain on this forum. WrongPlanet’s a better place for him, but even they would have to draw the line at misogyny, which Zizu is very-much guilty of, consistently. I really don’t think he’s as harmless or innocent as he makes out. Socially clueless, maybe not purposefully there per-se, but still toxic. Forcing himself into narratives that he knows he doesn’t have the wiring to understand, planting the spirit of confusion for no reason. If he has to be hounded a bit to get some sense into him and challenge his toxic mindset, it’s just something I’m going to step up to and get involved in. Like I said, I value our friendship more but the one thing I can’t do is just sit on the gut-instinct I have about this guy. I don’t think he’s a good person. At-all.
The issue I have with Zizu cuts across many corners and he knows he doesn’t help himself by the way he cuts in deliberately to express confusion with basic subtext, and he has some questionable views in-general that have nothing to do with his autism. He’s just not someone I gel with, and he knows that. He just chooses to ignore that boundary. I respect you, Kate, but I can’t apologise for not liking him. We just don’t gel, and not all of that is because of the way his ASD affects him. He’s not totally innocent in it all. I have to be firm on that.
It’s all good
I can’t stand liver and onions or fried mushrooms either
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If anyone can explain this post please let me know by PM to avoid any more unpleasantness !
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Benjamin
01-06-2025, 05:21 PM
Every time I choose to read your posts just reminds me of why I have you on my ignore-list. I obviously didn’t make a mistake. You, Benjamin (in all his pedantic foolery) and Alf really don’t do yourselves any favours in my book.
Not Redway yet again being condescending with his abrasive and conceited opinions. Makes a change…
Kate!
01-06-2025, 05:21 PM
The issue I have with Zizu cuts across many corners and he knows he doesn’t help himself by the way he cuts in deliberately to express confusion with basic subtext, and he has some questionable views in-general that have nothing to do with his autism. He’s just not someone I gel with, and he knows that. He just chooses to persistently ignore that boundary, acting like it’s on everyone-else to accommodate deliberate behaviour and dodgy opinions just-because his condition affects him in certain ways.
I respect you, Kate, but I can’t apologise for not liking him. We just don’t gel, and not all of that is because of the way his ASD affects him. He’s not totally innocent in it all and I have to be firm on that. The way his neurodivergence affects him explains some things but not everything, because we’re all fundamentally people before our neurotype or preferred ways of communicating. Constantly forcing himself into conversations that have nothing to do with him and pretending not to understand basic sub-text as far as I’m concerned might as well be deliberate in his case, because he knows I have boundaries with him. He just ignores them, and that’s deliberate. It’s being wilfully provocative and expecting immunity from some basic accountability just-because he’s neurodivergent (which practically half the planet seems to be at this point). Naturally, I don’t want to lose friends over this but as far as Zizu’s concerned I just can’t be nice about this anymore.
No that's fine love. You know I have a lot of time for you, you're a really good friend on here to me. Truly. I just don't think Zizu does it purposefully. I get it can be frustrating I do. It must be frustrating for Zizu too. Xx
Redway
01-06-2025, 05:22 PM
If anyone can explain this post please let me know by PM to avoid any more unpleasantness !
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“Like, seriously, stop. Just stop.” to people who spit a lot. I used my post as an umbrella to refresh the context, not because I was talking to myself. Come on, man.
“Like, seriously, stop. Just stop.” to people who spit a lot. I used my post as an umbrella to refresh the context, not because I was talking to myself. Come on, man.
Well you should have edited out your name from the first post then because it just looks like you replied to your self as Nate Diaz once did , famously
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Redway
01-06-2025, 05:27 PM
Well you should have edited out your name from the first post then because it just looks like you replied to your self as Nate Diaz once did , famously
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No, I shouldn’t have, because most people would’ve understood. This isn’t wrongplanet.com, Zizu. The whole forum doesn’t resolve around you and your contextual understanding/misunderstanding of basic social subtext. And it’s actually quite rude and entitled to expect people to bend over backwards for you, one person in a sea of members. That might sound rude but it’s just my perspective at this point. You have to remember that most people (including mutual Aspies/PDD-NOSers) come equipped with better inherent understanding of basic social nuance than you naturally, for all your talents and positive traits, whatever they are (I definitely don’t know what they are).
I’m sure there’s some good in you. But this constant insistence on derailing conversations with forced confusion with someone you know has drawn a certain line of boundary with you isn’t one of them, I’m not even gonna lie.
I’m not really tryna fall out with anyone over this, especially not a good friend like Kate, but when this line between confusion and wilful disruption keeps getting thinner and thinner, I’m gonna be honest this end of my tether, aren’t I? Space and benefit of the doubt haven’t worked. Yeah? Let’s be real.
Stop demanding the world rearrange itself so you never have to face the natural consequences of your own behaviour, you foolish moron.
…^^^^…I somehow feel that this is maybe someday going to be one of the most iconic TiBB friendships and bonds of all forum time…like Shrek and donkey…Tom and Jerry…:laugh:…Joey and Chandler…Bert and Ernie…?….yep…
…^^^^…I somehow feel that this is maybe someday going to be one of the most iconic TiBB friendships and bonds of all forum time…like Shrek and donkey…Tom and Jerry…:laugh:…Joey and Chandler…Bert and Ernie…?….yep…
Popeye and Bluto ?
Bagsy Popeye
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Popeye and Bluto ?
Bagsy Popeye
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…:laugh:…no bagsy-ing…we’ll draw out of a hat or something and make sure there’s no room for squabbling…:fan:…
…:laugh:…no bagsy-ing…we’ll draw out of a hat or something and make sure there’s no room for squabbling…:fan:…
Well Popeye was the more intelligent one of the two - so it’s a given to be fair
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Redway
01-06-2025, 05:47 PM
Does anyone else know why Redneck replied to himself and with a negativity comment ?
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There you are again. Calling me a redneck and expecting immunity just-because you have autism. Turns out I was right to draw the line after-all. You know exactly what you’re doing, don’t you?
When are you going to stop using autism as a blanket-excuse and take some accountability? Or am I “misunderstanding” what you meant by redneck, or your point about people who rape young girls always being “bloody foreigners”? One minute you’re being xenophobic, the next you’re calling a total stranger white trash. And you expect me to just allow it because you’re autistic?
There you are again. Calling me a redneck and expecting immunity just-because you have autism. Turns out I was right to draw the line after-all. You know exactly what you’re doing, don’t you?
When are you going to stop using autism as a blanket-excuse and take some accountability? Or am I “misunderstanding” what you meant by redneck, or your point about people who rape young girls always being “bloody foreigners”? One minute you’re being xenophobic, the next you’re calling a total stranger white trash. And you expect me to just allow it because you’re autistic?
Are you crazy.. I couldn’t remember your name so guessed at Redneck ( I knew it was Red something)
It was also when I was irritated by your response .. #1030
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Redway
01-06-2025, 06:06 PM
That was days ago when I was irritated by your response ..
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Doesn’t matter how long ago it was (in any case, it was, like, yesterday, not 1953). You said what you said, you know how unacceptable that remark is and I’m not excusing it because of your diagnosis or temporal context. You say things like this all the time. Tomorrow you’ll say similar and won’t have the excuse of time on your side.
Doesn’t matter how long ago it was. You said what you said, you know how unacceptable that remark is and I’m not excusing it because of your diagnosis or temporal context. You say things like this all the time. Tomorrow you’ll say similar and won’t have the excuse of time on your side.
See post above
I have no idea what Redneck refers other than it’s the name of a guy who appears on a discover program about aquariums .. he makes the tanks .. it’s an American thing
Surely you saw the link Redneck / Redway
Anyways if I was calling you a redneck I would have referred to you as ‘the redneck’ but I just said Redneck as your name
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Redway
01-06-2025, 06:14 PM
See post above
I have no idea what Redneck refers other than it’s the name of a guy who appears on a discover program about aquariums .. he makes the tanks .. it’s an American thing
Surely you saw the link Redneck / Redway
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So’s redneck. And the “above post” is irrelevant with what I’ve said about the fact that the timing doesn’t matter. You chose to be inappropriate and that’s on you, whether you said it yesterday or 5 years ago.
At the moment, it’s more effort for me to read your posts than not, since you’re on my ignore-list. I think I’d better go back to ignoring you. You’re not a person who makes a great deal of sense or takes accountability for anything you say, and I really can’t be doing with that.
So’s Redneck. And the “above post” is irrelevant with what I’ve said about the fact that the timing doesn’t matter. You chose to be inappropriate and that’s on you, whether you said it yesterday or 5 years ago.
At the moment, it’s more effort for me to read your posts than not, since you’re on my ignore-list. I think I’d better go back to ignoring you. You’re not a person who makes a great deal of sense or takes accountability for anything you say, and I really can’t be doing with that.
You can surely see that YOU assumed I was dissing you … incorrectly ?
You call me for misunderstanding things yet you appear to be just as bad !
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Niamh.
01-06-2025, 08:44 PM
Zizu, not sure why you think it's so odd that Redway quoted himself? I've quoted myself before, basically when I wanted to add something to what I'd already said or highlight a point I'd made previously :shrug:
Redway
01-06-2025, 09:03 PM
Zizu, not sure why you think it's so odd that Redway quoted himself? I've quoted myself before, basically when I wanted to add something to what I'd already said or highlight a point I'd made previously :shrug:
I wonder, Niamh. I really do.
And the fact that he was so pressed about it through about 3 pages. Like, what the hell? Who does that?
Zizu, not sure why you think it's so odd that Redway quoted himself? I've quoted myself before, basically when I wanted to add something to what I'd already said or highlight a point I'd made previously :shrug:
You wouldn’t criticise yourself though as he did …
I often quote myself.. I did it in yesterday in a football thread but only to show that I something I predicted came to fruition.
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I wonder, Niamh. I really do.
And the fact that he was so pressed about it through about 3 pages. Like, what the hell? Who does that?
You appeared to diss or criticise YOURSELF !
It really isn’t that complicated …
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Redway
01-06-2025, 10:05 PM
You appeared to diss or criticise YOURSELF !
It really isn’t that complicated …
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And like I said, this forum isn’t WrongPlanet. Clearly, most people (including Niamh) understood. It was a simple, simple subtext that most people wouldn’t bat an eyelid over but you chose to go ’round and ’round the houses with, expecting everyone to accommodate your misinterpretation of social subtext. No-one else struggled to understand. Just you, and you thought you were entitled to people to make even the blatantly obvious more obvious, just for you, one poster out of hundreds.
Niamh.
01-06-2025, 10:15 PM
You wouldn’t criticise yourself though as he did …
I often quote myself.. I did it in yesterday in a football thread but only to show that I something I predicted came to fruition.
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He wasn't, he was agreeing with himself and reinforcing his same view
It can be seen TWO ways though
I took it as though he was telling the writer to ‘stop’
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Niamh.
01-06-2025, 10:52 PM
It can be seen TWO ways though
I took it as though he was telling the writer to ‘stop’
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Clearly not though as he's the writer ....
Well I wondered at the time why he was quoting himself and even commented .
To be honest there are better ways to agree with oneself in a forum
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Redway
01-06-2025, 11:24 PM
Clearly not though as he's the writer ....
Any of Zizu’s beef making any sense to you, Niamh? Cah I am lost and hanging onto my patience by a thread.
Well I wondered at the time why he was quoting himself and even commented .
To be honest there are better ways to agree with oneself in a forum
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Like you keep being told, this forum doesn’t revolve around you so just get that out of your head. If something confuses you, okay, but don’t expect everyone to trip over themselves backwards a trillion times just to accommodate for your specific way of processing/mis-processing basic social subtext. Expecting that makes you look entitled. What part of that don’t you understand?
I mean, do you see why I mostly ignore you, when you act like this? Can you not see how incredibly annoying you can be?
Kate!
01-06-2025, 11:36 PM
Ok this is uncomfortable now.
Let's give Zizu a break. Anyone is perfectly entitled not to like him. Let's not carry on? And Zizu please leave it there as well.
Red, I responded to your earlier post but I don't think you saw it?? Xx
Redway
02-06-2025, 12:57 AM
Ok this is uncomfortable now.
Let's give Zizu a break. Anyone is perfectly entitled not to like him. Let's not carry on? And Zizu please leave it there as well.
Red, I responded to your earlier post but I don't think you saw it?? Xx
Honestly, Kate, it would be a sight for sore eyes if he left it there and admitted that the whole forum shouldn’t feel like they have to bend over backwards for him in-case he can’t pick up a particular cue. He really doesn’t help himself but he needs to learn to account for that eventually. He’s an adult, just like the rest of us. Older than most of us at that. Literally a retired pensioner.
I don’t think anyone really wants to hound him or cause him discomfort but just by constantly pushing this issue like a dog with a bone, he’s putting himself in the firing line, and the natural consequence of that is being questioned about what exactly he’s playing at or trying to prove.
It shouldn’t have to fall to me or Niamh to teach a 60-something-year-old man about accountability or how not to hijack a conversation with his constant misperceptions. He just does it too often at this point for me to be comfortable staying quiet about it, I can’t lie. I appreciate you looking out for him (genuinely) but I honestly think he gets away with too much and expects too much assumed innocence and running around after his misperceptions because of his autism. I don’t want to shield him from the natural consequences of how often his misreadings disrupt things and cause unnecessary nuisance. I just can’t be tiptoeing around that. I feel like that just enables him.
The truth is, he hijacks discussions, puts himself directly in the firing line by obsessively clinging to his misunderstandings like a barnacle and acts like it’s everyone-else’s job to manage those misunderstandings for him. I’m pretty sick of it at this point. I just feel like if he’s old enough to draw a pension, he’s old enough to know that he’s not entitled to a lifetime-exemption from criticism or the expectation of basic group-awareness. He has set out deliberately to weaponise his diagnosis into a shield against consequence, like a naughty child, and he deliberately pushes boundaries over and over again. And he makes many xenophobic, misogynistic comments all the time. That alone erodes whatever sympathy I’d have for him. At some point he will have to sit down and have a word with himself. He’s an idiot, a pervert and a disgrace.
Honestly, Kate, it would be a sight for sore eyes if he left it there and admitted that the whole forum shouldn’t feel like they have to bend over backwards for him in-case he can’t pick up a particular cue. He really doesn’t help himself but he needs to learn to account for that eventually. He’s an adult, just like the rest of us. Older than most of us at that. Literally a retired pensioner.
I don’t think anyone really wants to hound him or cause him discomfort but just by constantly pushing this issue like a dog with a bone, he’s putting himself in the firing line, and the natural consequence of that is being questioned about what exactly he’s playing at or trying to prove.
It shouldn’t have to fall to me or Niamh to teach a 60-something-year-old man about accountability or how not to hijack a conversation with his constant misperceptions. He just does it too often at this point for me to be comfortable staying quiet about it, I can’t lie. I appreciate you looking out for him (genuinely) but I honestly think he gets away with too much and expects too much assumed innocence and running around after his misperceptions because of his autism. I don’t want to shield him from the natural consequences of how often his misreadings disrupt things and cause unnecessary nuisance. I just can’t be tiptoeing around that. I feel like that just enables him.
The truth is, he hijacks discussions, puts himself directly in the firing line by obsessively clinging to his misunderstandings like a barnacle and acts like it’s everyone-else’s job to manage those misunderstandings for him. I’m pretty sick of it at this point. I just feel like if he’s old enough to draw a pension, he’s old enough to know that he’s not entitled to a lifetime-exemption from criticism or the expectation of basic group-awareness. He has set out deliberately to weaponise his diagnosis into a shield against consequence, like a naughty child, and he deliberately pushes boundaries over and over again. And he makes many xenophobic, misogynistic comments all the time. That alone erodes whatever sympathy I’d have for him. At some point he will have to sit down and have a WORD with himself.
WOW !
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Redway
02-06-2025, 03:21 AM
WOW !
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You’re in your 60s, laddie. Stop deflecting and WOWing and get yourself grown up. You’re not a child, and the likes of me won’t be pussyfooting around you like one or baby-sitting your misinterpretations of basic things. I don’t think that does you any good, and in any case, like I keep saying, TiBB is not wrongplanet.com, and maybe it isn’t the forum for you if you refuse to acknowledge that and keep thinking everyone should pander to and around your problems with basic social processing that everyone-else, even other people on the spectrum, understands.
Like it, don’t like it. That’s not even my problem. But one day you’ll realise why it’s good to take accountability for who you are and what you say.
Thank fcuk I only questioned why he’d quoted himself … imagine if I’d killed someone’s puppy or kidnapped Camilla and wrecked Charles’s precious greenhouse !!!
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You’re in your 60s, lad. Stop deflecting and WOWing and get yourself grown up. You’re not a child, and the likes of me won’t be pussyfooting around you like one or baby-sitting your misinterpretations of basic things. I don’t think that does you any good.
Like it, don’t like it. That’s not even my problem. But one day you’ll realise why it’s good to take accountability for who you are and what you say.
That was the word … and if you really want to do some good for someone then try being a bit more reasonable / tolerant and maybe try being nicer to others
There you go lad … now run along
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Redway
02-06-2025, 03:26 AM
Sometimes read people’s posts to understand and reflect rather than just form some totally irrelevant, random reply just-because you feel like you have to save face and defend yourself. Don’t be too quick to reply just for the sake of replying. You miss the point and refuse to acknowledge your flaws that way. You panic-reply with some off-topic rubbish just to protect your ego.
Sometimes I do wonder if you’ll ever get it. But whether you do or don’t, I’m not going to treat you like a defenceless, hapless child. You’ve been babied and enabled for a long time but I’m not gonna do that with a 60-something-year-old who has enough vitriol in him to xenephobe the life out of innocent Asian men who wouldn’t like twice at a 12-year-old white girl. I don’t know why people think you’re innocent and deserve wrapping in bubble-wrap. You’re a naughty, bigoted guy, and you know it. One who’s never had to take accountability for anything or grow up, because your wife pussy-foots around you and wipes your arse. If that’s the kind of babysitting you get in real life, it’s up to the people who feel like they have to care for you to keep doing that, but on this forum we are not your baby-sitters, arse-wipers or social-subtext translators. We don’t owe you that nonsense.
It’s not about tolerance (which you don’t deserve). It’s about the reality of you hiding behind your autism and utter cluelessness in the face of basic subtext to be intolerant to others, all-while thinking everyone owes you an adaptation just to make extra-sure that you don’t misunderstand, as-if this is WrongPlanet. Exploiting your diagnosis to avoid ethical accountability or accountability-period. I ain’t on that, fam.
You’re manipulative, entitled and bigoted, not just misunderstood.
Mystic Mock
02-06-2025, 05:20 AM
YouTube Shorts.
It's just these people thinking that they're God's gift.
YouTube Shorts.
It's just these people thinking that they're God's gift.
They make oodles of money though when they hit certain numbers of followers and / or views .
I saw something about a pop star who had zillions of follower and who was making £85,000 for every uploaded video !
He uploads around 5 each WEEK !!!!!
He made 60 to 90 second clips of him and a couple of mates doing little trending dances !
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…Zizu and Redway, neither of you have to or should change or adapt your posting ways and styles for the other one’s understanding …but the thread is little things that irritate and to keep it on topic and in that vein, a level of tolerance of individual differences would be a thought…rather than personal criticisms and derailing…
Mystic Mock
02-06-2025, 06:54 AM
They make oodles of money though when they hit certain numbers of followers and / or views .
I saw something about a pop star who had zillions of follower and who was making £85,000 for every uploaded video !
He uploads around 5 each WEEK !!!!!
He made 60 to 90 second clips of him and a couple of mates doing little trending dances !
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I get that, and some of the shorts can be decent tbf.
Redway
02-06-2025, 11:14 AM
…Zizu and Redway, neither of you have to or should change or adapt your posting ways and styles for the other one’s understanding …but the thread is little things that irritate and to keep it on topic and in that vein, a level of tolerance of individual differences would be a thought…rather than personal criticisms and derailing…
Trust me, Ammi, I’ve tried. People have pussy-footed around him for a good chunk of his life, presumably, and that’s why he can’t take accountability or possibly comprehend why no-one owes him a change in posting-style just to fit him. So he just refuses to grow up. Because imagine treating a call to basic accountability as a personal attack.
Gusto Brunt
02-06-2025, 12:31 PM
Cold days in early June. Had to use a hot water bottle last night.:shocked:
Redway
02-06-2025, 02:33 PM
“The U.K. is bad vibes, the U.K. is bad vibes, the U.K. is bad vibes.”
Then move to Lagos, Atlanta or Toronto, then. Don’t keep going on about how much the U.K. is a clapped island if you have the means to do something about it.
Redway
02-06-2025, 09:24 PM
Too many people, top clinicians included, treat tricyclics like glorified SSRIs with extra baggage. That’s reductive. The real efficacy of tricyclics, especially ones like clomipramine, doesn’t lie primarily with SERT (serotonin) or NET (norepinephrine) inhibition at-all. The long-term compensatory changes - the down-regulation of post-synaptic serotonin and beta-adrenergic receptors, and both pre.-and-post-synaptic alpha receptors - are key to why these drugs punch harder and deeper than most SSRIs ever will.
Clomipramine isn’t just a ‘stronger SSRI’. It’s a different class of weapon entirely. And the idea that its strength lies only in its SERT potency is textbook-level thinking that completely misses the point. Even people like Ken Gillman get caught up in that tunnel-vision sometimes. It’s not about first-line vs second-line. It’s about understanding what actually works when the softer options fail.
(Scientific one, still.)
Redway
02-06-2025, 11:42 PM
Also. Speaking on behalf of people I’ve known to want to speak to a female volunteer specifically at Samaritans (e.g., re. a breast-lump), I can almost feel their frustration when all they get at night is a string of male volunteers, and I say that as a fellow-male. You can’t exactly customise your volunteer in advance but I’m sure it doesn’t bode well for the charity that there aren’t enough female volunteers on at night, probably because sexually-harassing calls from horny middle-aged men are at their peak then. And-so the innocent callers have to suffer the consequence of that. It’s not fair. The people calling at 2/3 a.m. to talk about their male rape (which they might not feel comfortable talking about with another man), their breast-lump, their domestic abuse or sexual trauma didn’t create the hostile environment that contributed to less women being comfortable to do the night-shift. They’re just being left to absorb the fallout of other people’s violations and abuse of the service. So the institutional gap can unintentionally alienate some callers.
“The U.K. is bad vibes, the U.K. is bad vibes, the U.K. is bad vibes.”
Then move to Lagos, Atlanta or Toronto, then. Don’t keep going on about how much the U.K. is a clapped island if you have the means to do something about it.
….but, but, but, but…we are the ‘whinging poms’ arent we…isn’t it said to be a part of the Brit culture to moan …so a move to Lagos or Toronto or Atlanta would any take and extend that worldwide because we’ll find those bad vibes wherever we are and there are always bad vibes to find…and it can be very therapeutic to moan about them….
YouTube Shorts.
It's just these people thinking that they're God's gift.
But don't you want to know the fastest way to skin an apple
Redway
03-06-2025, 05:12 PM
People who step back into your life and expect you to be exactly the same as you were 12 or 15 years ago. We have the same fundamental core, sure, but not everyone may have seen that core back in the day and in any case, we evolve as people (albeit more-so than actually become completely different people, unless we weren’t being ourselves to begin with). You can’t always just pick off where you left it in 2012.
Redway
03-06-2025, 08:52 PM
When men try and play the chivalrous protector with women older than them.
Mystic Mock
03-06-2025, 11:07 PM
But don't you want to know the fastest way to skin an apple
:laugh:
Don't forget people sniffing each others farts.:umm2:
Redway
03-06-2025, 11:23 PM
Pins and needles.
Redway
03-06-2025, 11:24 PM
When men try and play the chivalrous protector with women older than them.
Like, let’s not. This woman’s old enough to be your sugar-nanny.
Redway
04-06-2025, 06:33 PM
“Volume should be turned down” recommendations from Apple. Piss off.
“Volume should be turned down” recommendations from Apple. Piss off.
Yeah that headphone volume warning is annoying especially as you have to stop what you’re doing to cancel the message !!
It is the iPhone’s ONLY flaw though in their defence !!
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Redway
05-06-2025, 12:52 AM
People ignoring the truth when they feel personally called out rather-than reflecting and sitting with it.
People ignoring the truth when they feel personally called out rather-than reflecting and sitting with it.
This guy
LoL
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Ithinkiloveyoutoo
05-06-2025, 11:01 AM
….but, but, but, but…we are the ‘whinging poms’ arent we…isn’t it said to be a part of the Brit culture to moan …so a move to Lagos or Toronto or Atlanta would any take and extend that worldwide because we’ll find those bad vibes wherever we are and there are always bad vibes to find…and it can be very therapeutic to moan about them….
Indeed bad vibes are everywhere
Ithinkiloveyoutoo
05-06-2025, 11:03 AM
People who step back into your life and expect you to be exactly the same as you were 12 or 15 years ago. We have the same fundamental core, sure, but not everyone may have seen that core back in the day and in any case, we evolve as people (albeit more-so than actually become completely different people, unless we weren’t being ourselves to begin with). You can’t always just pick off where you left it in 2012.
I'm not the same as 2 years ago. I'm mentally and socially tired. Been avoiding people and ignoring messages for now until I gather the strength.
Takes a lot of energy to maintain relationships and be as chirpy and giving as I was a year or 2 ago. When people call me my pet name I inwardly say "she's died a year ago"
I'm not the same as 2 years ago. I'm mentally and socially tired. Been avoiding people and ignoring messages for now until I gather the strength.
Takes a lot of energy to maintain relationships and be as chirpy and giving as I was a year or 2 ago. When people call me my pet name I inwardly say "she's died a year ago"
Awww
Sending you a virtual hug !
I suffer from perpetual depression and anxiety but the only thing that helps is listening to happy, uptempo uplifting music .. sometimes even that can’t help of course
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Ithinkiloveyoutoo
05-06-2025, 11:09 AM
Awww
Sending you a virtual hug !
I suffer from perpetual depression and anxiety but the only thing that helps is listening to happy, uptempo uplifting music .. sometimes even that can’t help of course
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Music is great therapy for sure.
Redway
05-06-2025, 04:24 PM
(Big-ting, still)
Women in some ancient cultures not being allowed to eat gizzard, pork, the head of chicken, etc., even-’though 9 times out of 10 it would be the women preparing and cooking these parts of meat. The only person, if anyone, who should have full monopoly over a meal is the person who actually cooks it. Men dictating even that to women is sickening misogyny.
Redway
05-06-2025, 04:24 PM
I'm not the same as 2 years ago. I'm mentally and socially tired. Been avoiding people and ignoring messages for now until I gather the strength.
Takes a lot of energy to maintain relationships and be as chirpy and giving as I was a year or 2 ago. When people call me my pet name I inwardly say "she's died a year ago"
Hugs. You’ve got this.
I'm not the same as 2 years ago. I'm mentally and socially tired. Been avoiding people and ignoring messages for now until I gather the strength.
Takes a lot of energy to maintain relationships and be as chirpy and giving as I was a year or 2 ago. When people call me my pet name I inwardly say "she's died a year ago"
…I mean, you are that same person, CeeCee…but just at a different time in your life and maybe not feeling such a ‘social’ vibe of being around people…but that’s cool too because it gives you the space to focus on you and that’s a great focus to have and one that’s much needed at times…:love:..
Redway
06-06-2025, 07:14 PM
David Platt (Corrie), 2006-08. The most irritating piece of garbage ever. Hated his psycho.-teen phase. I’d have disowned him if he was my kid.
Kate!
06-06-2025, 07:19 PM
David Platt (Corrie), 2006-08. The most irritating piece of garbage ever. Hated his psycho.-teen phase. I’d have disowned him if he was my kid.
Yes! Absolutely awful. Fortunately he redeemed himself.
Redway
06-06-2025, 07:43 PM
Yes! Absolutely awful. Fortunately he redeemed himself.
Yeah, definitely (well, as much as someone like David could redeem himself).
Another thing I’m not keen on about Corrie is the last 10 years of Blanche’s (Deirdre’s mum) stint, the Blanche as most people know her and came to know her. I preferred younger, ’70s Blanche. She was more balanced and didn’t take pleasure in other people’s misfortune.
David Platt (Corrie), 2006-08. The most irritating piece of garbage ever. Hated his psycho.-teen phase. I’d have disowned him if he was my kid.
The actor was really quite nice on Celebrity Big Brother for what it’s worth
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Redway
07-06-2025, 07:53 PM
Just harkening back to one experience I had where a young woman who’s dating a family-friend randomly sent me a follow-request on Insta., I slid into her DMs after just accepting it on the basis of having mutual friends and asked who she was, she be like “don’t you know the people you add”. One thing becomes another and before you know it her boyfriend’s threatening to jump me. Just unnecessarily irritants fuelled by tequila-fuelled misunderstandings. I really wasn’t looking for drama that weekend. I was literally just trying to be nice.
Redway
08-06-2025, 08:28 AM
The it’s-a-tough-world-out-there toxic narrative that nobody truly cares about you.
The it’s-a-tough-world-out-there toxic narrative that nobody truly cares about you.
It’s funny that we see the world on telly and in the media as a cruel , uncaring, toxic wasteland and yet when we are out and about 99% of folk we meet are absolutely lovely !
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Redway
08-06-2025, 06:08 PM
Windy voice-notes.
Redway
08-06-2025, 08:41 PM
Smokers’ cough. Coughing in-general is an irritating sound.
Redway
08-06-2025, 09:23 PM
Occasional Emmerdale-clashes perpetuating the idea that EastEnders was consistently hovering around the 6-7 million mark in years like 2004 and 2006 (excluding 2005, which is generally considered more positively than negatively and rightly a real fan-favourite, especially among the more seasoned/long-term fans, and rightly-so; truly phenomenal year).
It’s true that ratings dipped a bit at the right-side bookend of the Louise Berridge era but even that only meant they dipped to about 10/11 million (as-opposed to the more regular 12-14 million they were getting in 2003 and earlier 2004), except the episodes that went head-to-head with Emmerdale. And that’s more-or-less how it stayed until world-cup season 2006, 10/11 (sometimes 12+ million) million, and usually about 45-55% share of the available audience day-by-day. Pretty-much the only episodes that dipped below the absolute lows of 8 million (which was considered quite low at the time, and happened only in the peak of the warmer months) was when they clashed with Emmerdale head-to-head.
Santer’s era and beyond plummeted to below 6 million (the lowest clash-figure up-to late-mid. 2006) over and over again, but no-one quotes those figures as the norm, because it’s rightly-acknowledged that the norm for that era, outside annoying Emmerdale-clashes, was 8-10 million. Likewise, the late-mid. 2004 - mid.-2006 norm was 10-12 million (later 2006 is more like 2007-11 in terms of ratings). Not every episode of EastEnders in 2008 hovered around 4/5 million and not every episode of EastEnders in 2006 was hovering around 6m or 3.9 million. Only the ones that clashed with Emmerdale. But to this day a lot of people still don’t know that and just believe the myth that EastEnders did terribly in the ratings in those years. The only difference is the press laid off after a certain point, but the damage they did to a lot of people’s perceptions of EE in the mid.-noughties is real. Even Kathleen Hutchinson herself got sucked into it at one point.
That said, Sonia and Naomi’s lesbian affair (beginning later in 2005 and continuing in full swing throughout 2006) was a truly revolting storyline, not because Sonia tapped into her bisexuality but because of how clunky and random it was. That was truly abysmal, but it was just one link in a chain of heat for Sonia and easily discarded so it didn’t do much damage to her character. It’s just that they were better-off as friends. Having Sonia explore her sexuality with Naomi felt contrived, not earned.
Redway
09-06-2025, 02:44 AM
People who are on amicable terms with the world but just honouring their peace and boundaries being accused of “locking themselves up” is pretty irritating. No-one owes you their presence at a wedding of their buddy’s sister who’s even blocked them on Instagram for some reason best-known to her to withstand the scrutiny of your pathologisation of self-care. Maybe they want to lose weight or grow their hair back before they start showing up at events where everyone’s tryna be on their dapper (on their dap/on-dap, still.). Maybe they’re just curating their energy for more intimate one-on-ones/linking in small groups of friends (dispositionally or just at this particular time in their lives). Maybe they value presence over quantity in their engagements and always did but are now at an age or a point in their life where they have more autonomy and agency over where they go and how they spend their energy, outside the crux of formative childhood and teenage experiences and expectations. Maybe more of their time’s going into work so they can make a particular amount of donation to a cancer-trust that hits close to home.
Whatever it is, it’s not really for you to speculate on what’s wrong with them just-because they didn’t go to the wedding or naming-ceremony of someone they’re not particularly close to in the first place. People are different, and they’re especially probably perfectly fine if they’re not known for being particularly outgoing people to begin with, because then it’s characteristic. Just curated. Gossiping and speculating about why they’re not giving you the presence you expect in those environments doesn’t help anyone.
…some of these sound like quite big things to irritate, Redway…(…I think with weddings for instance…)…the cost is connected to the expected guest list so speculation is possibly inevitable as well…
Smokers’ cough. Coughing in-general is an irritating sound.
Do you recall the Covid years when a slight cough in Tesco saw you dragged out and flogged by the bins ..
I was scared of even clearing my throat !
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Redway
09-06-2025, 03:42 PM
People who don’t take out time to read things properly on WhatsApp, because all they want to do is just skip that part and have a ’phone-call. It pays to be literate. There’s some fundamental things for context that might only come through in writing, especially if the person’s not comfortable divulging some of those deeper thoughts and experiences randomly on a call (which isn’t uncommon if they’re deeply introverted). It pays to be literate. Intentional, curated communication that sets certain boundaries over immediacy isn’t without its value even on WhatsApp/SMS. Text gives many people room to layer the table for nuance, to reveal certain truths that they might’ve sat on for decades without pressure. You don’t want to skimp over the nuance, tone and boundaries being communicated with you just-because you’re in a rush to just talk, because for people like that, text isn’t just filler to precurse to a call. It’s foundation, and the only space where long-buried thoughts can be safely expressed without pressure.
So ya. People who don’t like to just sit down and read really annoy me. Especially when you’ve told them more than once, consecutively, that there’s stuff they need to sit down and read properly before the call, yet they don’t even read that the third time you say it because they can’t communicate like you via text. It’s just so frustrating.
ITV’s new team sheets !
They don’t bother showing the expected team layout just list the names !!
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Redway
09-06-2025, 03:52 PM
…some of these sound like quite big things to irritate, Redway…(…I think with weddings for instance…)…the cost is connected to the expected guest list so speculation is possibly inevitable as well…
That’s true (re. the cost).
Livia
09-06-2025, 05:22 PM
Wimbledon. The tournament, not the area generally.
Wimbledon. The tournament, not the area generally.
What !!!
I love Wimbledon fortnight !
I watched yesterday’s AMAZING final - all 5 hours + !!
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Redway
09-06-2025, 07:00 PM
The fact that I’m always editing and editing my posts. I’d rather just do it all in one go, but deeper context comes to me after I’ve already made my point.
Redway
09-06-2025, 07:14 PM
The way Jamie Baldwin (Corrie) were always chewing gum. Not so much irritating as just smug, the way he went for it, fighting his dad with a chewy in his mouth. I don’t know if it was just fashion at the time (I can’t remember) but it just makes him look so childish.
Like I said, though, it’s not irritating. Just so smug it’s funny.
Redway
09-06-2025, 07:22 PM
The way Jamie Baldwin (Corrie) were always chewing gum. Not so much irritating as just smug, the way he went for it, fighting his dad with a chewy in his mouth. I don’t know if it was just fashion at the time (I can’t remember) but it just makes him look so childish.
Like I said, though, it’s not irritating. Just so smug it’s funny.
Heck, that reminds me of a bona-fide irritant. The very fact that this Monday we could only be re-acquainted with Jamie chomping away in smug once, because only the Sunday-bill (just one half-hour episode, as was the weekend-schedule for Corrie in those days) has been uploaded. Not only does it not help with the Sunday entertainment-void (Sunday bills should be re-aired on Sundays; like, duh … it gives people some telly to get their teeth into on the most boring day of the week) but it also ensures that there’re two Monday bills to watch on a Monday, like every other day of the week. I don’t know why the transmissional powers that be are so allergic to putting decent stuff on telly besides Songs of Praise on on a Sunday at this point.
Ugh. There sure-are a lot of things that grind my gear. This is becoming a book at this point.
Redway
10-06-2025, 05:21 AM
Yoruba people who don’t know the seriousness of the Biafran war (and often-times it will show in the way they talk about and regard Igbos) really don’t help themselves. I’m sure if I was Peter Obi at this point in time (putting aside Nnamdi Kanu now; let’s just forget about him), I’d be pretty pissed. That historical blind spot can obstruct mutual respect more than it should.
Mystic Mock
10-06-2025, 08:46 AM
The actor was really quite nice on Celebrity Big Brother for what it’s worth
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Agreed.
He was quite funny.
Mystic Mock
10-06-2025, 08:51 AM
It’s funny that we see the world on telly and in the media as a cruel , uncaring, toxic wasteland and yet when we are out and about 99% of folk we meet are absolutely lovely !
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TV is always OTT.:laugh:
Mystic Mock
10-06-2025, 08:56 AM
Do you recall the Covid years when a slight cough in Tesco saw you dragged out and flogged by the bins ..
I was scared of even clearing my throat !
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The evil times.
Redway
10-06-2025, 12:19 PM
People who don’t acknowledge the dignity of people’s side-hustles, try and throw it back in the grafter’s face, mock the slow exponential growth and think they’re just wasting their time because it seems to be taking more time for not enough money, if any, than it’s worth. It’s no business of yours what shade and degree of fulfilment someone gets out of their side-hustle, especially when it enriches other people’s lives. You have no right to decide what brings someone fulfilment, especially when you don’t even know them that personally. It’s no business of yours.
People who don’t respect the dignity of labour, and individual circumstances (e.g., working part-time because of health-issues/more pressing personal commitments, and needing universal credit to top them up some months), are up there with notorious, pathological gossips (just-as there are pathological liars) as some of the most toxic people going.
Redway
10-06-2025, 02:14 PM
The fact that there are people out there who lump Linda (EastEnders) in with the Danny-Dyer act and miss the fact that she’s a power-house character (especially now that she’s been to rehab., sobered up and dropped her alcoholic self-destruct mode), and Kellie Bright a terrific actress. She’s probably the best she’s ever been at the moment, the resident agony-aunt of the square.
Her drunk-acting wasn’t up to much and on that plain she was certainly no Steve McFadden but otherwise she’s terrific, just like she was in Bad Girls.
Livia
10-06-2025, 05:36 PM
People using emojis in serious debates like there aren't enough words.
The Slim Reaper
10-06-2025, 05:38 PM
People who refuse to discuss anything in serious debates, like there aren't enough sub-forums.
Redway
10-06-2025, 06:16 PM
The way Corrie’s mostly been plodding along in mediocrity at best since the spring of ’05, with only a few genuinely captivating, well-crafted periods approaching the quality of the better of the first 44 years. There are probably years within these last 20 years that have been more alien to Corrie’s core than this current misery-drip of police-drama (2011-12 was marmite-like but I thought most of Collinson’s era was horrible, likewise the infamous bad-comedy summer of ’05) but it’s mostly strayed between that level of horror and just-plain mediocrity since.
2006 wasn’t exactly the best year for EastEnders because of the cast-turnover of 2005-06 and it took a while to get going again in more solid blocks after Sharon goes to Florida but there’s actually quite a lot that’s good about this year, and it’s solid in terms of characterisation for certain key characters. I know we’ll never forget what they did to Pauline, and Sonia was beyond insufferable this year, but characters like Jean (before she became a sausage-surprise caricature) and Bradley were better served by Kate Harwood than Diedrick Santer, with some genuinely good arcs to root for (Denise/Owen/Libby abuse, Billy and Honey’s wedding and Janet’s Down-Syndrome, Sean/Stacey/Jean, the beginnings of things like Stacey/Max. and Stella bullying Ben.) to boot. It had edge and genuine drama amongst the crap (Sonia/Naomi, Johnny Allen getting wasted into cardiac oblivion, “killing” Kathy off for 9 years to give us the repugnant divvy that is Ben Mitchell).
One thing that the current “classic” Corrie reruns (currently on October 2006) have pointed out is how flat and stale it feels by comparison to Easties, and like I say 2006 wasn’t exactly a golden year for them, either. Just … Jamie having an affair with his step-mum, Sean (who’s improved as a character just-lately, thanks to Dylan) prancing around convinced he’s straight-acting, Bev. drunk-acting very badly and crying over a gravy-jar, David at his absolute teenage-psycho. worst (even if it did give us that *epic* Gail/David showdown), it … ya. The only stories from this year I really like are Rosie/Craig and Emily Bishop coming face-to-face with her Ernest’s killer (and even that was wrapped up in the first quarter of the year). No real danger of sinking ship at the time, better in hindsight now a lot of icons (like Deirdre) aren’t with us anymore and it’s watchable enough but no more than that. Just so, so painfully average.
My child has decided to peacefully protest nap time by napping peacefully on the floor... on one hand, I should be happy because she looks happy. On the other hand, her protest is working because I'm definitely not checking the camera for evidences of permanent damage.
Our home is 100% tile, but she probably has her "square" (folded blanket) underneath her as that's her favorite place of late... it's something at least... oh and her head is on her pillow
People using emojis in serious debates like there aren't enough words.
🔥
Redway
10-06-2025, 09:56 PM
People blaming homelessness on the issue of ‘too much immigration’. Many rough sleepers are recent, unsettled migrants, including ones from Eastern Europe (who might not be Anglo-Saxon white but still fundamentally Caucasian). We live in a world with so much xenophobia and hatred dressed up as impartial politics but at t’end of t’day, no-one should be sleeping rough. Only certain people are wicked enough to deserve nights under the bridge surrounded by rats and damp mould.
Redway
11-06-2025, 01:37 AM
The periodic pain of bunions.
Livia
11-06-2025, 10:28 AM
People who are paid to speak English and say 'nucular' instead of 'nuclear'.
Redway
11-06-2025, 04:46 PM
When the visibly snotty-nosed cashier in your local garage is behind the till two days in a row. Catching sight of it yesterday, I was repulsed for 3 hours straight; I did not eat. I was asking my God why some people can be so disgusting from a public-health point of view. All the Singapore fried rice, chicken-wangs, Skittles and De Rica tomato-paste I’d bought to go and do big celebration of tasty food, I had to put them all aside in anger.
Redway
11-06-2025, 08:03 PM
The way people in certain communities carry shame on their heads like it’s a mad ting just-because it becomes common knowledge that they graduated with a third-class degree (for example now). We do a lot of judging and gossiping and not enough minding our business or at-least trying to put ourselves in t’other person’s shoes. Let’s have less noice and more nuance in our noisy world.
Redway
13-06-2025, 04:11 PM
Adverts.
Redway
14-06-2025, 12:44 AM
The way Corrie’s mostly been plodding along in mediocrity at best since the spring of ’05, with only a few genuinely captivating, well-crafted periods approaching the quality of the better of the first 44 years. There are probably years within these last 20 years that have been more alien to Corrie’s core than this current misery-drip of police-drama (2011-12 was marmite-like but I thought most of Collinson’s era was horrible, likewise the infamous bad-comedy summer of ’05) but it’s mostly strayed between that level of horror and just-plain mediocrity since.
2006 wasn’t exactly the best year for EastEnders because of the cast-turnover of 2005-06 and it took a while to get going again in more solid blocks after Sharon goes to Florida but there’s actually quite a lot that’s good about this year, and it’s solid in terms of characterisation for certain key characters. I know we’ll never forget what they did to Pauline, and Sonia was beyond insufferable this year, but characters like Jean (before she became a sausage-surprise caricature) and Bradley were better served by Kate Harwood than Diedrick Santer, with some genuinely good arcs to root for (Denise/Owen/Libby abuse, Billy and Honey’s wedding and Janet’s Down-Syndrome, Sean/Stacey/Jean, the beginnings of things like Stacey/Max. and Stella bullying Ben.) to boot. It had edge and genuine drama amongst the crap (Sonia/Naomi, Johnny Allen getting wasted into cardiac oblivion, “killing” Kathy off for 9 years to give us the repugnant divvy that is Ben Mitchell).
One thing that the current “classic” Corrie reruns (currently on October 2006) have pointed out is how flat and stale it feels by comparison to Easties, and like I say 2006 wasn’t exactly a golden year for them, either. Just … Jamie having an affair with his step-mum, Sean (who’s improved as a character just-lately, thanks to Dylan) prancing around convinced he’s straight-acting, Bev. drunk-acting very badly and crying over a gravy-jar, David at his absolute teenage-psycho. worst (even if it did give us that *epic* Gail/David showdown), it … ya. The only stories from this year I really like are Rosie/Craig and Emily Bishop coming face-to-face with her Ernest’s killer (and even that was wrapped up in the first quarter of the year). No real danger of sinking ship at the time, better in hindsight now a lot of icons (like Deirdre) aren’t with us anymore and it’s watchable enough but no more than that. Just so, so painfully average.
Characters like Fiz, Sarah Platt and Sophie Webster and so on were also either grotesque and repugnantly caricatured or just-plain annoying and whiny (Sarah) during this period. Modern Corrie is far from the best this show has been but at-least Fiz is written like an actual person (and not a gross caricature) at this point and Sarah’s written like someone you can genuinely root for, for all her mistakes in choice of partner, and not just some whiny 19-year-old to be annoyed by.
Redway
14-06-2025, 09:08 PM
When people interchange being a person of colour with being working-class. That doesn’t withstand the scrutiny of actual reality. How do people think doctors and pharmacists of colour live?
Redway
15-06-2025, 01:27 AM
The way oxazepam as a benzo. is so, so underrated. It’s less potentially addictive than any of the others, it’s more compatible with alcohol (likewise with lorazepam and temazepam) than the Valium and (in places like the U.S.) Xanax that gets churned out by default and … yeah. It’s just really nice. Grounds your thoughts into a manageable load, whether you’re in intuition-overload or just want to give a bit more mellow weight to your cognitive world on rainy weekends. It’s probably the safest benzo. there is, but it’s barely prescribed outside of alcohol-withdrawal.
Quietly anchoring without fanfare is how I’d describe it. Less of that boom-bust pattern you get with high-drama benzos (clonazepam, Valium, Xanax). Thought-calibrative chamomile for the psyche.
Lorazepam? Grounds you in the moment and reduces the hasty pressure you get to work against the clock otherwise. Plantain porridge takes you a good 2 hours to cook in this mode of alert quasi-sedation? No problem. Separating your beiges from your pure whites out of a sack of laundry? I can legit. sit with it for as long as it takes, without feeling any need to rush just that little bit more to get it done. ‘It’ll happen when it happens’ is lorazepam’s aura.
Redway
15-06-2025, 01:46 AM
People who did you dirty in the past while harping on about gaseous nebulas symbolising personal birth rather-than destruction (for another ting). Ironic when that person caused destruction in your own life.
Livia
15-06-2025, 12:04 PM
Flies. It's the one thing I bloody hate about living in the country.
Redway
15-06-2025, 12:05 PM
People who don’t take out time to read things properly on WhatsApp, because all they want to do is just skip that part and have a ’phone-call. It pays to be literate. There’s some fundamental things for context that might only come through in writing, especially if the person’s not comfortable divulging some of those deeper thoughts and experiences randomly on a call (which isn’t uncommon if they’re deeply introverted). It pays to be literate. Intentional, curated communication that sets certain boundaries over immediacy isn’t without its value even on WhatsApp/SMS. Text gives many people room to layer the table for nuance, to reveal certain truths that they might’ve sat on for decades without pressure. You don’t want to skimp over the nuance, tone and boundaries being communicated with you just-because you’re in a rush to just talk, because for people like that, text isn’t just filler to precurse to a call. It’s foundation, and the only space where long-buried thoughts can be safely expressed without pressure. Meet me halfway and honour that boundary, and then we can talk.
So ya. People who don’t like to just sit down and read really annoy me. Especially when you’ve told them more than once, consecutively, that there’s stuff they need to sit down and read properly before the call, yet they don’t even read that the third time you say it because they can’t communicate like you via text. It’s just so frustrating.
And again. You have to be literate and ready to read if you want to talk to me. Don’t say it “inconveniences” you. You’re not respecting the other person if you’re too lazy to read a few messages setting a tone. Grow up. Honour that boundary, and then we can talk. But if you’re not trying to do the work, forget it.
Flies. It's the one thing I bloody hate about living in the country.
At least they’re not bladdy mosquitoes like in Florida ?!!!
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And again. You have to be literate and ready to read if you want to talk to me. Don’t say it “inconveniences” you. You’re not respecting the other person if you’re too lazy to read a few messages setting a tone. Grow up. Honour that boundary, and then we can talk. But if you’re not trying to do the work, forget it.
Fcuking hell , Redway.
I thought I was the quirky one with issues …
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Redway
15-06-2025, 06:03 PM
People who seriously believe that “a lady” should only drink white wine and its spritzer. That’s like saying men should only drink shots of whiskey on the rocks and forget about beer.
Redway
15-06-2025, 07:07 PM
Reddit’s auto.-mod. messages.
Redway
15-06-2025, 09:27 PM
Gillian Wright’s current voice (EastEnders). Ugh. How I long for the days of 2005/2009 Jean. Now she’s just a lispy fairy who flies around making sausage-and-fish baskets and slapping Kat for fun.
Redway
15-06-2025, 09:44 PM
Fcuking hell , Redway.
I thought I was the quirky one with issues …
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I don’t remember asking you for your input.
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don’t remember asking you for your input.
Its a public forum…
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Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 05:50 AM
Watching England National Football Team play.
Oliver_W
16-06-2025, 08:45 AM
I took the FC to a local comic con recently, and he entered the cosplay competition with a homemade costume. All the "placed prizes" went to people with shop bought costumes with no customisation or anything, while the people who made costumes didn't get anything.
So yeah that's today's gripe, people winning (or even entering tbh) cosplay contests with bought jobbies.
I took the FC to a local comic con recently, and he entered the cosplay competition with a homemade costume. All the "placed prizes" went to people with shop bought costumes with no customisation or anything, while the people who made costumes didn't get anything.
So yeah that's today's gripe, people winning (or even entering tbh) cosplay contests with bought jobbies.
…’FC’…?…ahhh yeah, I do feel your irritation with that…even at very young ages/a similar-ish thing is when it’s obvious that a child’s entry in something creative has had much parental/adult intervention…:laugh:…and if it wins over another entry or other multiple entries where the child has been the main source of the creativity…that’s an irritation of mine, but thankfully doesn’t happen too often so much….and those prizes that are given for Halloween costume dress up if the costume is ‘off the shelf’ with little or no personal additions and enhancements etc…just no individuality…very sad and disappointing for those who have spent a long, long time…(..and for their moms if they’ve also spent a long, long time…)…
Watching England National Football Team play.
Since they sacked Hoddle ..
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Redway
18-06-2025, 11:49 PM
Misplaced … ‘duff-duff equivalents,’ for want of a better turn of phrase, on Corrie. Unlike EastEnders, Weatherfield folk are still yet to consistently master the act of a sharp duff that packs a punch. Some of the “cliffhangers” on Corrie just do not make sense. And yet they wonder why EastEnders is known for being more edgy and gritty.
“Classic” Corrie (2006, a decidedly mediocre year anyway) has so many limp cliffhangers it makes a mockery of the show.
Redway
19-06-2025, 12:51 AM
‘Wanna finish my pint?’
Sentiment appreciated but unless you’re family (and even then I’m not so sure), I don’t really wanna drink something with your saliva in it. I’m never gonna be that thirsty. You’ll have to buy me one outright if you want to treat me to some liquid. I’d rather that liquid not be saliva and bits of spit, naturally. I ain’t cool with that. Your backwash is yours, just for you.
On that note
Fans are complaining about the crazy costs of beer / lagers in the stadiums holding the World Club Championship !!
The US ‘pints’ are 80% of a UK pint but cost $21 each glass !!!
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Redway
19-06-2025, 06:19 PM
People ruining the pub.-garden atmosphere with lots of sniffing (from snotty noses and snorting coke), sneezing and spitting. It’s just gross, and irritating the way some people bring repulsive noise with them wherever they go, smug grin to boot. It’s often the same lads, over and over. Every time. Sneezing like it’s a competition of premium snotiness, spitting for sport. Mood? Killed. Keep your farts, sneezes and spit to yourself.
Redway
21-06-2025, 01:35 AM
Uber drivers who don’t know the way and ask you for directions, as-if that ain’t their job.
Mystic Mock
21-06-2025, 06:33 AM
Redditors who have to tell you that their 24 year old girlfriend is a female.
NO **** SHERLOCK!
Redway
21-06-2025, 06:24 PM
The way Jamaicans/Caribbeans pronounce plantain (as “plan-tin”) is a niche little rivalling niche and it’s at no real risk of being a genuine irritant but I dunno. It just sounds wrong.
Redway
21-06-2025, 10:10 PM
People taking your seat (that you marked with belongings) at the pub and not even feeling sorry about it. The entitlement of certain drunks is excruciating.
Redway
29-06-2025, 02:07 AM
The way egusi soup gets salty so easily. Uziza spruces it up. Any more salt than you need after adding the likes of crayfish and stockfish/okporoko (salty, to varying degrees, in themselves; sef, Maggi, too) spoils it.
The way Jamaicans/Caribbeans pronounce plantain (as “plan-tin”) is a niche little rivalling niche and it’s at no real risk of being a genuine irritant but I dunno. It just sounds wrong.
What about the way some non-whites say …
I wanna AXE you a question rather than ASK ?
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Mystic Mock
29-06-2025, 04:02 AM
Pogba fake crying for likes on Social Media.
Redway
29-06-2025, 07:10 AM
What about the way some non-whites say …
I wanna AXE you a question rather than ASK ?
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No.
No.
So that doesn’t annoy you ?
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Redway
29-06-2025, 09:57 AM
So that doesn’t annoy you ?
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That’s what I said.
That’s what I said.
Surprising …
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Redway
29-06-2025, 07:46 PM
Surprising …
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Why on Earth would that be surprising? You know we’re nothing alike (that’s all I’ll say on that). Your irritations won’t necessarily be mine and vice-versa.
Why on Earth would that be surprising? You know we’re nothing alike (that’s all I’ll say on that). Your irritations won’t necessarily be mine and vice-versa.
Because it’s an obvious irritation and you are seemingly irritated by just about everything in life …
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Mystic Mock
29-06-2025, 10:34 PM
The current chart Music.
Mystic Mock
29-06-2025, 10:34 PM
Because it’s an obvious irritation and you are seemingly irritated by just about everything in life …
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That's my duty to be irritated at everything in life.:fist:
Not even other Brits can compete with me.
Redway
29-06-2025, 10:40 PM
Because it’s an obvious irritation and you are seemingly irritated by just about everything in life …
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But there’s cultural context and I’m down with it more than most. So sorry but no. Your irritations are only obvious to you. Me, I find “axe” cool. You obviously don’t and that’s fair enough but that has nada to do wi. me. Nothing whatsoever.
But there’s cultural context and I’m down with it more than most. So sorry but no. Your irritations are only obvious to you. Me, I find “axe” cool. You obviously don’t and that’s fair enough but that has nada to do wi. me. Nothing whatsoever.
Fair enough
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Redway
30-06-2025, 03:20 AM
The way onugbu (bitterleaf) needs so much washing to become even half-palatable. Ugh. Wonder-vegetable, but so, so inherently bitter.
Redway
30-06-2025, 09:53 AM
Infractions.
Infractions.
Interestingly … 4 thirds of people don’t understand fractions ..
Sorry - couldn’t resist it
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Redway
01-07-2025, 05:13 PM
The way finding a coconut at the shops has suddenly become impossible.
The way finding a coconut at the shops has suddenly become impossible.
There isn’t a demand for them, I’d suggest
We get one every year or so when the fair comes to town ( usually autumn time for some reason )
You can buy coconut milk just about anywhere
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Redway
01-07-2025, 05:30 PM
There isn’t a demand for them, I’d suggest
We get one every year or so when the fair comes to town ( usually autumn time for some reason )
You can buy coconut milk just about anywhere
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I was going for fresh coconut for a reason. So mentioning pre-processed coconut milk is useless to me and just another bit of daft coming from you. I’m not gonna wait for the fair to come to town.
Go and face your beautiful women.
Mystic Mock
02-07-2025, 05:45 AM
Anime posters where the woman has to shove her feet at the camera.
It's not a bloody Hentai.:fist:
Redway
02-07-2025, 05:56 AM
People who whine a lot about the present moment and clamp down on younger generations indiscriminately. People have been doing that since time-immemorial, including when the current boomers were lads and lasses. Some things never change.
Redway
02-07-2025, 06:12 PM
Igbos generally cook better than Yorubas (although party jollof is more of a Yoruba stronghold in terms of consistency, especially within Nigeria itself) but I ain’t down with it when Igbos gate-keep efo (riro) and skimp on the tomatoes because “Igbos never use tomatoes to cook any soup, unless tomato-paste is a substitute for palm oil.” Just eat the efo with rice if it’s that pressing to you. That’s option. Just like rice and egusi. Rice and steamed vegetables (amaranth, ugu, spinach). It don’t have to be pounded yam if the tomato-bit puts you off eating it as ofe. It’s … not about tribalism. It’s about authenticity.
Redway
02-07-2025, 11:58 PM
ITVX trigger-warn-coding episodes of Emmerdale featuring cannabis as “drug-referential,” when one of the most notorious drugs of them-all (alcohol) is almost like the foundation of these soaps. The over-reliance on alcohol is an irritant at the best of times but the way they insist on flogging anti-drugs narratives amidst copious amounts of beer and wine, and the hypocritical moralising that comes with it, gets me skipping bare scenes. It’s unwatchable to me.
Mystic Mock
03-07-2025, 12:25 AM
^
Trigger warnings in general piss me off.
Mystic Mock
06-07-2025, 08:43 AM
Benjamin Mendy sympathizers.:umm2:
Redway
12-07-2025, 03:54 PM
The way local taxi firms (KingKabs, Chester being a notable exception) don’t try at-all anymore. And they wonder why people are flocking to Uber by the day.
Redway
12-07-2025, 10:54 PM
Random acquaintances who bring toxic energy imposing themselves on you in the pub when you’re just trying to have a quiet pint. Chances are, I don’t want to speak to you and your girlfriend if I’d never actually hang out with you. The mutual vibe has to be respectful and free of toxicity. Know your boundaries. Don’t overstep.
Redway
12-07-2025, 10:55 PM
Random acquaintances who bring toxic energy imposing themselves on you in the pub when you’re just trying to have a quiet pint. Chances are, I don’t want to speak to you and your girlfriend if I’d never actually hang out with you. The mutual vibe has to be respectful and free of toxicity. Know your boundaries. Don’t overstep.
And with that, Redway is back. Back and full of quiet irritation.
But yeah. Mutual energy has to be clean, grounded and non-invasive. Gotta respect the space.
Mystic Mock
12-07-2025, 11:00 PM
When good-looking people attack their own looks just so they can get told how attractive they are.
It strikes me as someone that needs to be validated all of the time.
Redway
12-07-2025, 11:07 PM
When good-looking people attack their own looks just so they can get told how attractive they are.
It strikes me as someone that needs to be validated all of the time.
Validation can always be a sore point for a lot of people, in different contexts. You have to remember that there’s always a face behind the make-up (for-example) and that can drive some of the insecurity, if their face alone doesn’t seem beautiful enough to them. Some people just have body-dysmorphia and see themselves as ugly even if they’re drop-dead gorgeous by all realistic accounts.
Validation can always be a sore point for a lot of people, in different contexts. You have to remember that there’s always a face behind the make-up (for-example) and that can drive some of the insecurity, if their face alone doesn’t seem beautiful enough to them. Some people just have body-dysmorphia and see themselves as ugly even if they’re drop-dead gorgeous by all realistic accounts.
Mmm
I recall working with two .. intelligent women , both parents as well ..
Both were ridiculously ( dangerously so) underweight yet both ate barely anything at break or lunchtime and both regularly made comments about themselves having to watch their weight or how FAT they were getting !
Utterly bizarre
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Redway
13-07-2025, 12:55 AM
Mmm
I recall working with two .. intelligent women , both parents as well ..
Both were ridiculously ( dangerously so) underweight yet both ate barely anything at break or lunchtime and both regularly made comments about themselves having to watch their weight or how FAT they were getting !
Utterly bizarre
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Sadly that can often be the case.
Mystic Mock
13-07-2025, 04:43 AM
Validation can always be a sore point for a lot of people, in different contexts. You have to remember that there’s always a face behind the make-up (for-example) and that can drive some of the insecurity, if their face alone doesn’t seem beautiful enough to them. Some people just have body-dysmorphia and see themselves as ugly even if they’re drop-dead gorgeous by all realistic accounts.
I get what you're saying.
It's probably just me being cynical tbf.:laugh:
Mmm
I recall working with two .. intelligent women , both parents as well ..
Both were ridiculously ( dangerously so) underweight yet both ate barely anything at break or lunchtime and both regularly made comments about themselves having to watch their weight or how FAT they were getting !
Utterly bizarre
When I did a short stint working in coffee, I remember seeing a rail thin woman who would come through. Very wide-eyed. She would always emphatically order every modification possible to make the beverage as non-fat/sugar-free as possible (including multiple sweeteners). And yet add in a ton of caffeine of course. The order was so complicated it ended up in about 12 additions. It was so obvious it was to hide the fact they were dieting off of copious amounts of caffeine because there's no way they had stable energy levels. They were dangerously thin. Like how they were upright and able to drive a vehicle was a feat. And they were adamant they couldn't have anything fattening whatsoever. The drink order was a level of cope hiding an obvious eating order I'd never thought possible. They just seemed so distraught when talking to them, though. Some of the other people I worked with thought it was actually amusing or many didn't really seem to be bothered by it. I don't know how people don't notice and feel empathy.. especially as someone who serves others.
When good-looking people attack their own looks just so they can get told how attractive they are.
It strikes me as someone that needs to be validated all of the time.
Attraction is so subjective, it can be a bit of a game to figure out where we resonate with specific people. It's like this with personality I think these days. So it's probably one of the few times some people can figure out where their chemistry falls with other people if they're not used to being noticed for their personality. So I kinda understand that "need". However yes, some people just play the game, not just a quest to find out whether one is attractive or not, but to try to get someone to be more interested in them and play mind games. That game absolutely is played among women... but men do it too also now (especially younger men).
I'm unconventional when it comes to my tastes, so a lot of compliments do feel straight out of left field :laugh: I see compliments as "for entertainment purposes only", to be generously given but more for the benefits of amusement... I]generally[/I] not to be taken that seriously at all because impressions can be highly variable. I'd like to think I have a decently critical (constructive) view of myself that I don't need someone to directly insult on me the regular to have some clue at least... but when someone compliments in any area that really I can't be objective on, that is helpful because it's affirming that I at least put across an energy that I can accept when I'm around other people... I think being attractive to others has a lot to do with personality, so if someone goes out of their way to put compliments on physical traits, they're also speaking to you as a person... not just what you look like, but how you make them feel... so that information does matter.
Some people are not strong in personality, so it can look that they are using it to achieve attention. It is what it is. I try not to judge too harshly, because we all have our points we feel we'd like to work on. Maybe someone is genuinely not happy with their look. Whatever the case, if they need validation, it's fine I think on some level. Games are pretty easy to detect if you pay enough attention. My concern would more be if the compliments are coming from the right place... like I don't want to make other people feel I need flattery.
/random
Redway
14-07-2025, 12:08 AM
Instigators of narcissistic abuse not understanding the seriousness of what they do and how they treat people. (Big-ting, still.)
Yep, Redway’s definitely back.
Mystic Mock
14-07-2025, 04:10 AM
Attraction is so subjective, it can be a bit of a game to figure out where we resonate with specific people. It's like this with personality I think these days. So it's probably one of the few times some people can figure out where their chemistry falls with other people if they're not used to being noticed for their personality. So I kinda understand that "need". However yes, some people just play the game, not just a quest to find out whether one is attractive or not, but to try to get someone to be more interested in them and play mind games. That game absolutely is played among women... but men do it too also now (especially younger men).
I'm unconventional when it comes to my tastes, so a lot of compliments do feel straight out of left field :laugh: I see compliments as "for entertainment purposes only", to be generously given but more for the benefits of amusement... I]generally[/I] not to be taken that seriously at all because impressions can be highly variable. I'd like to think I have a decently critical (constructive) view of myself that I don't need someone to directly insult on me the regular to have some clue at least... but when someone compliments in any area that really I can't be objective on, that is helpful because it's affirming that I at least put across an energy that I can accept when I'm around other people... I think being attractive to others has a lot to do with personality, so if someone goes out of their way to put compliments on physical traits, they're also speaking to you as a person... not just what you look like, but how you make them feel... so that information does matter.
Some people are not strong in personality, so it can look that they are using it to achieve attention. It is what it is. I try not to judge too harshly, because we all have our points we feel we'd like to work on. Maybe someone is genuinely not happy with their look. Whatever the case, if they need validation, it's fine I think on some level. Games are pretty easy to detect if you pay enough attention. My concern would more be if the compliments are coming from the right place... like I don't want to make other people feel I need flattery.
/random
Sure it's subjective.
But (for example) I think that most people would say that someone like Dua Lipa is attractive, and some people would find it odd if she were to suddenly start saying how she thinks that she's hideous.
Oh and I agree that men can be guilty of this too, ironically it's easier to read a guy doing it from my perspective than it is women.
And fair points on the last couple of paragraphs, one thing I wanna add that's more to do with the person giving the compliments, is if they're constantly throwing them out at someone who's insecure about themselves, just to manipulate that insecure person to do what they want.
Mystic Mock
14-07-2025, 04:11 AM
Instigators of narcissistic abuse not understanding the seriousness of what they do and how they treat people. (Big-ting, still.)
Yep, Redway’s definitely back.
Narcissism feels like it's on the rise.
Redway
14-07-2025, 04:05 PM
Narcissism feels like it's on the rise.
Sometimes you’ve got to laugh it off when people dislike you for the most random reasons and let them go off on their own lonely tangents but if someone dislikes you on the basis of you being a walking red-flag in terms of interpersonal toxicity (narcissism being the extreme version of that) by more than one account, and the people actually know you well enough to make that call, I personally would be worried. But people with no self-awareness just walk around every day and shrug it off like it’s no big deal, like other people are just being too sensitive and reading into their toxic behaviour way too much.
As-for whether it’s truly on the rise or not, I couldn’t comment, to be fair. But I do know that it’s an epidemic.
Redway
14-07-2025, 06:42 PM
Some of the comments on the “Liverpool: Then and Now” Facebook-page, where it’s giving misplaced nostalgia. Some people would say that a pile of soot surrounded by rats and poor orphan-children looks better than the more modern rendering.
Kate!
14-07-2025, 06:45 PM
Hypocrisy
Redway
14-07-2025, 06:49 PM
Jason Grimshaw’s stupidity (Corrie).
Kate!
14-07-2025, 06:51 PM
Jason Grimshaw’s stupidity (Corrie).
Yes. Total himbo
Redway
14-07-2025, 07:01 PM
Yes. Total himbo
Re-watching 2006/2007 episodes in the ITVX “Classic” reruns is no easy feat. He seems to think that looking after his own baby is his mum’s responsibility, that it’s a big inconvenience to be responsible for another life.
Kate!
14-07-2025, 07:17 PM
Re-watching 2006/2007 episodes in the ITVX “Classic” reruns is no easy feat. He seems to think that looking after his own baby is his mum’s responsibility, that it’s a big inconvenience to be responsible for another life.
Much prefer Todd of the two brothers
Redway
14-07-2025, 07:29 PM
Much prefer Todd of the two brothers
I’m not even a big fan of Todd but I have to agree with you. I think ultimately Jason’s a nice person but he’s always been a bit dim and oafish for my liking.
Redway
14-07-2025, 07:40 PM
Speaking of this era of Corrie, I also wasn’t a fan of how rushed Mike Baldwin’s dementia-storyline was. I’m not an expert on Alzheimer’s (that’s not where my niche insight of mental health lies) but from the first signs of fading memory and tentative diagnosis there’s only about four months of material. Well-acted, no-doubt, and well-written as far as it goes, but far too rushed.
Something in Corrie fundamentally changed for the worse in the summer of 2005 (at a time when EastEnders was going from strength to strength, between Shannis returning, Zoe leaving and Sam digging up Dirty Den’s corpse in the Vic, even if the Molfie-heavy interim between those points wasn’t the best) and that’s how it stays, albeit never-quite as silly, until about the middle of 2010, bottoming in 2009. Not a good era for the show all-in-all but Mike’s Alzheimer’s is a highlight I try and take from 2006, but I can’t. Not fully, because from a temporal longitudinal perspective it made no sense how he could deteriorate that rapidly and even evade a firm diagnosis.
Kate!
14-07-2025, 07:47 PM
Yes and Debbie's dementia in current storylines will probably progress very fast too.
Mystic Mock
14-07-2025, 07:51 PM
Re-watching 2006/2007 episodes in the ITVX “Classic” reruns is no easy feat. He seems to think that looking after his own baby is his mum’s responsibility, that it’s a big inconvenience to be responsible for another life.
He sounds like the worst stereotype of what a Dad is meant to be.:joker:
Redway
14-07-2025, 08:09 PM
Yes and Debbie's dementia in current storylines will probably progress very fast too.
To be fair, they did say that her storyline’s gonna stretch into 2027 but even-so, they should not be getting rid of a character like Debbie in the first place. She’s too vibrant (and in a good way) to lose unnecessarily. There’s far too much misery on modern Corrie as it is.
Kate!
14-07-2025, 08:12 PM
To be fair, they did say that her storyline’s gonna stretch into 2027 but even-so, they should not be getting rid of a character like Debbie in the first place. She’s too vibrant (and in a good way) to lose unnecessarily. There’s far too much misery on modern Corrie as it is.
Ah right, that's good then. And I agree, Debbie is a gem of a character. Silly to get rid.
Redway
14-07-2025, 08:19 PM
He sounds like the worst stereotype of what a Dad is meant to be.:joker:
Yeah. Jason was just an idiot. His only responsibility around this time was not losing his bank-card on a night out. Anything more, and it was his mum’s job to sort it out for him. Never anything to do with him.
Mystic Mock
14-07-2025, 08:22 PM
Yeah. Jason was just an idiot. His only responsibility around this time was not losing his bank-card on a night out. Anything more, and it was his mum’s job to sort it out for him. Never anything to do with him.
And I thought that I was a lazy bastard.:laugh:
Redway
14-07-2025, 10:18 PM
People who say “I understand” when they don’t, not really.
Redway
15-07-2025, 03:43 PM
EastEnders: people reducing Jamie Borthwick’s acting to copious hand-flapping (which I’ve never really even noticed). I haven’t been Jay’s biggest fan since 2017 but there’s solid acting behind him. He’s made some questionable comments lately but that’s a separate issue.
Redway
15-07-2025, 03:44 PM
EastEnders: people reducing Jamie Borthwick’s acting to copious hand-flapping (which I’ve never really even noticed). I haven’t been Jay’s biggest fan since 2017 but there’s solid acting behind him. He’s made some questionable comments lately but that’s a separate issue.
Some people on Walford Web seem really taken aback by this supposed hand-flapping business, in terms of how he gesticulates. That’s what I’m referring to.
Redway
15-07-2025, 04:48 PM
The current state of Belle Vale Shopping Centre (Liverpool). Whenever I’m in Liverpool and tap into Belle Vale, there’s always some other shop that’s shut up shop. They’ll all be gone by December at this rate. Very annoying.
Mystic Mock
15-07-2025, 05:09 PM
EastEnders: people reducing Jamie Borthwick’s acting to copious hand-flapping (which I’ve never really even noticed). I haven’t been Jay’s biggest fan since 2017 but there’s solid acting behind him. He’s made some questionable comments lately but that’s a separate issue.
If I remember correctly, didn't he make a joke that the BBC overreacted about?
Redway
15-07-2025, 05:14 PM
If I remember correctly, didn't he make a joke that the BBC overreacted about?
I wouldn’t call it an over-reaction, tbh. It was a comment in very poor taste.
Mystic Mock
15-07-2025, 05:46 PM
I wouldn’t call it an over-reaction, tbh. It was a comment in very poor taste.
I remember it not being that bad tbh.
Especially compared to what the BBC has let off the hook at least.
Redway
16-07-2025, 02:21 PM
Buses that stall in the middle of nowhere.
Redway
16-07-2025, 03:09 PM
People who can’t just sit down.
Redway
16-07-2025, 03:56 PM
Bees and wasps what don’t mind they-own beeswax (pun vaguely intended). ’cause why-you taking a nap in my cup of coffee? Respect the boundary, fam.
Benjamin
16-07-2025, 05:59 PM
How most houses are designed for short people, like kitchen sides, oven extractors etc.
How most houses are designed for short people, like kitchen sides, oven extractors etc.
We know a family who live in a very old house with ridiculously low doorways and they were 6’ 2” or about except the mum /wife who was 5’10” .. thankfully they soon got used to ducking and claimed it wasn’t an issue
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Redway
17-07-2025, 12:07 AM
And I thought that I was a lazy bastard.:laugh:
Jason: ‘I know you’ve recently lost a pregnancy, Violet, but since you’re staying in tonight (even-though it’s because you’re feeling ill), can you look after my baby?’
Nah. You’re nowhere-near that bad, my guy. I’m very sure of that. Jason was an idiot on top of being lazy, more of a tool than the building-tools he worked wi., and that made it all-the worse. Good legacy-character but so annoying to watch in the noughties, until he grew up a bit.
Mystic Mock
17-07-2025, 12:20 AM
Jason: ‘I know you’ve recently lost a pregnancy, Violet, but since you’re staying in tonight (even-though it’s because you’re feeling ill), can you look after my baby?’
Nah. You’re nowhere-near that bad, my guy. I’m very sure of that. Jason was an idiot on top of being lazy, more of a tool than the building-tools he worked wi., and that made it all-the worse. Good legacy-character but so annoying to watch in the noughties, until he grew up a bit.
Thanks Redway.:blush:
I'm guessing that Jason eventually grew up mentally?
Redway
17-07-2025, 10:57 PM
Thanks Redway.:blush:
I'm guessing that Jason eventually grew up mentally?
Only a little.
Redway
17-07-2025, 10:58 PM
Irritant: the level of vitriol some people spew about Camilla, a woman they don’t know from a can of carnation-milk.
Irritant: the level of vitriol some people spew about Camilla, a woman they don’t know from a can of carnation-milk.
Camilla had to get out of the public’s view for many years as she was soooo despised.
Probably before you were born .. so you can never know the love millions worldwide felt for Princess Di
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Redway
17-07-2025, 11:11 PM
Camilla had to get out of the public’s view for many years as she was soooo despised.
Probably before you were born .. so you can never know the love millions worldwide felt for Princess Di
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Camilla and Princess-Diana are two different people.
Camilla and Princess-Diana are two different people.
I give up
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Redway
17-07-2025, 11:13 PM
I give up
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Yay.
Does that mean giving up the intense historical hatred you have of someone you don’t know personally?
Let’s face it. You hate Camilla because she breaks your script, not because she broke a home. She has opinions, which you have trouble with people having in any case unless they converge with yours, which you can’t override. I don’t think it’s a hatred based on true ethics or morale. It does all add up and bounce back this issue of how you view women. You have an inherent dislike towards people who don’t echo you.
You may have women in your life who you claim to respect but I don’t think you’re exactly who you say you are when it comes to the strength of those relationships. Many things don’t add up. You’re bogus, and a big fool.
I’ve got my eye on you. Wouldn’t trust you as far as I could throw you. I don’t know why some people still give you the benefit of the doubt. You’re a walking red flag in my books and incredibly misogynistic to boot. You’ve just been enabled for too long because your social cluelessness gives you a veneer of looking innocent and harmless, but beneath that meek veneer, you’re toxic and seemingly incapable of taking more than a smidgen of accountability at a time. And you don’t-half talk a lot of rubbish generally. Absolute rubbish.
You’re not misunderstood. You’re just transparently misogynistic, and a bit of an old creep to boot. And you leak toxicity every corner you turn on this forum.
Yay.
Does that mean giving up the intense historical hatred you have of someone you don’t know personally?
You will never understand
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Mystic Mock
17-07-2025, 11:27 PM
Only a little.
Ouch.:laugh:
Redway
18-07-2025, 04:47 AM
You will never understand
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And you’ll never know Camilla.
Me? I’m just in the corner wishing her a belated happy birthday for yesterday.
:)
Oh, adios.
Redway
18-07-2025, 05:53 AM
Ouch.:laugh:
Some people never truly grow up, unfortunately.
Redway
18-07-2025, 05:47 PM
The way some coffee-shops close much earlier these days. Half-5 is too early. I wouldn’t want to drive people to the pub too quickly just-because I’ve decided to shut up shop an hour or two before it feels right.
Redway
18-07-2025, 09:59 PM
1. Erasure.
2. Toxic perversion draped up as red-bloodedness.
Redway
18-07-2025, 11:27 PM
3. People who can’t accept difference in opinions.
4. People who think that having a potentially romantic or sexual interest in women gives them credence to not want to watch women competing against each-other in sports (like boxing). It wouldn’t fly the other way around, because the hypocrisy/self-serving double-standards would be extremely obvious and it’s respected there that people are people and shouldn’t be restricted from their hobbies and passions just in-case you want to kiss or bang one in your dreams. It’s a very condescending, infantilising flavour of misogynistic that comes from a thinly-veiled nice-guy veneer who’s “speaking out of concern.” Absolutely vile. You’ve got to leave the urge to inherently sexualise people sometimes to value their humanity and see them as they truly are, unbounded by stereotype and gendered expectations. People are fluid, and objectification reduces that acknowledgment. More to this, though, I hate when the premise of “concern” is used to objectify, judge or used to cloak and pattern feelings of control or superiority. That’s not okay. And it’s not innocent. It’s an attitude that actively does harm to the dignity of other people. Feigned protectiveness is more about possessiveness and ego than the person themselves, and it’s inherently deeply, deeply manipulative.
“But I’m still a nice guy, and that should be obvious.” Anyone can claim to be any fruit but there’s still a difference between an apple and a banana. So it jars when people say that to defend their misogyny.
If someone only sees value in women who mirror their experiences or meet their aesthetic standard, they don’t truly see women; they see tools for emotional or visual gratification. And it’s a manipulation-pattern that too many allow themselves to be gaslit into tolerating it or downplaying its harmfulness. And gaslighting is inherently abusive. I really don’t envy women in relationships with guys like that. It can sometimes turn coercive. It’s intentionally engaging with the most commodified portrayals of women, all-while ridiculing actual women in positions of authority, voice or athleticism. It’s semi-predatory. It’s narcissistic consumption that Dr Ramani would have a field-day with.
Redway
19-07-2025, 04:27 AM
People needing affirmation from the lowest-hanging fantasy-tree.
Mystic Mock
19-07-2025, 04:43 AM
1. Erasure.
2. Toxic perversion draped up as red-bloodedness.
Are you talking about the 80's Music group?
Redway
19-07-2025, 04:53 AM
Are you talking about the 80's Music group?
I’m not, buddy. I’m talking about the general practice.
Mystic Mock
19-07-2025, 04:56 AM
I’m not, buddy. I’m talking about the general practice.
Fair enough.
Redway
19-07-2025, 08:23 PM
People who smoke near babies.
Mystic Mock
19-07-2025, 08:47 PM
People who smoke near babies.
100% agree.
Redway
21-07-2025, 04:54 PM
Pubs that are overly dog-friendly.
Pubs that are overly dog-friendly.
Agree and the owners who happily have their dog jumping up on pub seats and laugh it off
I was in a pub the other day which makes a very big thing of being dog friendly and it absolutely stank
Redway
21-07-2025, 05:17 PM
Agree and the owners who happily have their dog jumping up on pub seats and laugh it off
I was in a pub the other day which makes a very big thing of being dog friendly and it absolutely stank
I thought I was going to get overriding pro-dog-sentiment from you so it’s glad to see you actually on the same page with me on this. I’m really not a dog-person in-general but a lot of even those more partial would draw the line at dogs knocking people into their pint-glasses and rolling all-in the spilt Coors like it’s liquid shower-manna infused with chamomile.
I thought I was going to get overriding pro-dog-sentiment from you so it’s glad to see you actually on the same page with me on this. I’m really not a dog-person in-general but a lot of even those more partial would draw the line at dogs knocking people into their pint-glasses and rolling all-in the spilt Coors like it’s liquid shower-manna infused with chamomile.
Haha no I'm more of a cat man but still generally quite like dogs - I just object to them being forced on everyone or the assumption that some owners have that we must enjoy their dog slobbering all over us
Redway
21-07-2025, 05:46 PM
Haha no I'm more of a cat man but still generally quite like dogs - I just object to them being forced on everyone or the assumption that some owners have that we must enjoy their dog slobbering all over us
I’m with you 100%. The assumption that everyone’s going to be comfortable with dogs over-stepping basic human boundaries and slobbering all over them is pretty entitled, likewise for the inherent suspicion that anyone who doesn’t like dogs must be an enemy of mankind or at-best traumatised from a bad childhood-encounter with dogs. Not everyone likes dogs and that’s that. It’s not by force to love furry, noisy canines.
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