Little things that irritate you

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Having to wake up extra early to go in the office when I can just work from home. Managers just want to tick boxes.






At the same time I try not to moan too much because I am grateful that I have a job.

[Ammi]

…I’m trying to think of an irritation I have but….no….

…you have a good day at the office, me dear…your irritation is their blessing…🩷

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

…I’m trying to think of an irritation I have but….no….

…you have a good day at the office, me dear…your irritation is their blessing…🩷

I need to be this carefree. Not sure about being their blessing but thanks, Ammi. :laugh: You have a good day too.

[Ammi]

..people who have AirPods/ear buds and walking around town using their phone silently etc…but then when they speak, you think they’re talking to you so you answer them…/awkward moments…

[bots]

I have big things that irritate me a little, but I no longer allow little things to irritate me at all

[Kate!]

Parmy

[bots]

:laugh:

[Beso]

Parmy

Stop showing off in front of the new people. They will all be gone soon, remember that.

[MTVN]

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

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

[arista]

…I’m trying to think of an irritation I have but….no….

…you have a good day at the office, me dear…your irritation is their blessing…🩷



That's the way
wise Lady

[Livia]

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

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

So annoying. I swear one day it'll happen and I'll spit my food onto the table cloth and scream "DON'T INTERRUPT ME WHEN I'M EATING!"

[Crimson Dynamo]

Parmy

:joker:

[Niamh.]

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

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

I was at a restaurant one time in a 5* Hotel and i swear the waiters there would always give a look first to make sure no one had just taken a bite before they came to ask.........but generally yes, it's so annoying :laugh:

[Ammi]

I was at a restaurant one time in a 5* Hotel and i swear the waiters there would always give a look first to make sure no one had just taken a bite before they came to ask.........but generally yes, it's so annoying :laugh:

…that’s pretty great if they did that, it shows such thought and consideration…and obviously great observation, rather than…. oh 7.45pm, it’s time to do the rounds now…on that note, it’s not just having a mouth filled with food when a member of staff asks, it’s also when you’ve taken that mouthful of food without checking how hot it is…so your mouth is also burning like the fires of hell while you try to speak that everything’s fine and lovely, thank you…

[Niamh.]

…that’s pretty great if they did that, it shows such thought and consideration…and obviously great observation, rather than…. oh 7.45pm, it’s time to do the rounds now…on that note, it’s not just having a mouth filled with food when a member of staff asks, it’s also when you’ve taken that mouthful of food without checking how hot it is…so your mouth is also burning like the fires of hell while you try to speak that everything’s fine and lovely, thank you…

oh my god, I hate that :laugh:

[bots]

i found that if you speak really loudly saying everythings lovely, they never come back :laugh:

[Niamh.]

i found that if you speak really loudly saying everythings lovely, they never come back :laugh:

:laugh2:

[Crimson Dynamo]

i found that if you speak really loudly saying everythings lovely, they never come back :laugh:

me in my relationships

[Zizu]

Bladdy lollipop men !!!

Early mornings school-run time .. heavy traffic - everyone trying to avoid being late for work

These bladdy men don’t use their common sense and simply wait until there’s a few people wanting to cross …. No they stop the traffic everytime someone needs to cross meaning they are backing the traffic up !!!

Aghhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!


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[MTVN]

me in my relationships

:joker:

[Beso]

When the as breaks come on during big brother and I'm half way to the kettle when I hear Marcus voice.."day 11" ..I rush back, but its only an advert by the sponsors.

[Stu]

Patrick Wilson's stupid face.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

i found that if you speak really loudly saying everythings lovely, they never come back :laugh:

:laugh:






That I'm developing an unhealthy obsession with Tyla. I've watched her video shorts way too many times.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Patrick Wilson's stupid face.

One of the best actors we always forget exist

[MTVN]

When the as breaks come on during big brother and I'm half way to the kettle when I hear Marcus voice.."day 11" ..I rush back, but its only an advert by the sponsors.

I keep getting tricked by that too, weird how they have BB sponsor type adverts in the middle of the break

Also irritates me how quickly Marcus talks on the Vinted sponsors

[Adamw92]

Slow walkers cutting you off and then dawdling in front of you, just MOVE!

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

That Big tasty is discontinued :(

[Redway]

“I just assumed.”

When it comes to how many photocopies to make or something, fine. But not when it comes to people and their capabilities or strength of character. You don’t necessarily know that at all. No-one has to prove anything to you in any case (unless they actually do) but if it’s not too personal on a general level, you can ask. Going with blind assumptions when you don’t know the person that well isn’t going to work.

[Redway]

People who misuse and overuse the word “harassment”. Any little difference in opinion now and the person’s allegedly being harassed.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Living the dream bed rotting all weekend, now it's Monday again in a few hours :bawling::bawling:


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[Redway]

Long waits. I’ve spent enough of my life waiting around for other people and at this point I’m actually really impatient. I seem calm about it on the outside because I’m just naturally quite a reserved person but I actually a pissed off in those situations.

[Mystic Mock]

People who misuse and overuse the word “harassment”. Any little difference in opinion now and the person’s allegedly being harassed.

It definitely feels commonplace to say it on the Internet.:laugh:

[Redway]

Having to shop around to find nice-flavoured Lambrini (cherry, strawberry). Somewhere on the outskirts of Liverpool (Halewood) is partially the birthplace of all these Lam-perries so you can get what you want there but anywhere else and you’re going to have to look. I used to make do with the standard guff on a Friday night and a cheap candle from Tesco but these days if I’m going to drink cider or perry I want to appease my sweet tooth. I get enough bitterness with beer (which is what I drink most anyway).

[Redway]

People turning up too early and then complaining about time being wasted when that’s really on their own bat. Unless it’s formal, you’re better off being 10 minutes late than 15/20!minutes early. The person you’re meeting might’ve had to nip to the bank and Tesco and bank on making it for you just in time. So being stupidly early is not their problem. They didn’t ask you to be that early. You chose to waste a quarter of an hour hanging around just for the sake of it.

The most I’ll ask is that you’re on time. I’m not your boss so I don’t need or even want you turning up overly early and making me rush to get to you 20 minutes in advance at the last minute. Get yourself a coffee or have a cigarette/long vape if you’ve got those extra minutes to kill. I’m sticking closer to the time we agreed, bearing in mind that there’s a difference between being punctual and taking the merry-larker piss. I say I err more on the side of quiet impatience these days but the context is a little different.

[Redway]

Thinking you’ve bumped into someone you know but not being able to go up to them and say hi because you can’t be 100% sure it’s them or someone who just looks the spit of them.

[Redway]

ITVX’s obsession with adverts. They can die by it.

[Beso]

When you are trying to listen for something and theres to much noise...or making to much noise when looking for something.

[Mystic Mock]

When you click to go on the Internet and your Internet connection dies.:fist:

[Redway]

People insisting on driving after a night out.

Being under the influence and driving do not go well together at all. Get a taxi. Doesn’t matter if you’re the most sober one in the group or you think you have fairly high tolerance. It’s not just your own life you’re putting at risk but other people’s.

[Zizu]

People insisting on driving after a night out.

Being under the influence and driving do not go well together at all. Get a taxi. Doesn’t matter if you’re the most sober one in the group or you think you have fairly high tolerance. It’s not just your own life you’re putting at risk but other people’s.


On the subject of night driving ..

I hate oncoming vehicles who actually BLIND me !!

Or come from behind and do the same


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[Ray.]

A certain category of people who have this mindset that no one's ever ill and that people who say they feel ill are either exaggerating or lying completely.

[Redway]

People not understanding the fact that people who are socially introverted are actually comfortable doing things alone. They don’t need to be surrounded by people to go to Tesco or have a good time in their rooms reading with a lit candle (reading’s supposed to be quite a solitary activity anyway). Different people have different needs, wants and preferences. That you’d be lonely or feel awkward slipping to the pub for a quiet pint/glass alone doesn’t mean someone else would. They have mates, and quite meaningful friendships at that. Everything just doesn’t have to be a social motive for them but that’s something that people who lack the capability to enjoy their own company will never understand.

I’m putting on a blue denim jacket, black jeans and shooting to Spoons for some San Miguel and a bite to eat, barely even looking you in the eye. Of course you’re not invited. Unless I want company.

Not to say you shouldn’t link up with your mates as often as is comfortable for you and that you shouldn’t cultivate those connections across the board (that’s important). That’s not what I mean. It’s just about knowing that it’s not every time that a more reticent/ambiverted person desperately needs to be around other people to do what they want to do. No-one’s an island but no-one has two heads either (allowances made for Siamese twins).

A certain category of people who have this mindset that no one's ever ill and that people who say they feel ill are either exaggerating or lying completely.

Sounds like you have a toxic boss.

[Zizu]

People not understanding the fact that people who are socially introverted are actually comfortable doing things alone. They don’t need to be surrounded by people to go to Tesco or have a good time in their rooms reading with a lit candle (reading’s supposed to be quite a solitary activity anyway). Different people have different needs, wants and preferences. That you’d be lonely or feel awkward slipping to the pub for a quiet pint/glass alone doesn’t mean someone else would. They have mates, and quite meaningful friendships at that. Everything just doesn’t have to be a social motive for them but that’s something that people who lack the capability to enjoy their own company will never understand.

.


You’ve just described me !!


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[Gusto Brunt]

Slow walkers cutting you off and then dawdling in front of you, just MOVE!

Yes, in supermarkets, people who block the aisles with their slow walking. :fist:

[Redway]

Being charged at the ATM to withdraw your own money.

[Redway]

The fact that no-one seems to know how to mow the lawn these days (since I’ve clearly got the time to be remembering all these pet peeves today). I’ve genuinely been doing it since I was 6 so it’s jarring to me when people they don’t see the appeal in it or find it just a little bit fun.

[Redway]

Anti-drugs hypocrisy (as a general note).

Cannabis as a plant is varied and packed with all sorts of benefits (from various non-psychoactive cannabinoids, like CBN and CBD, to actual THC, like it or not) and ketamine and psychedelics likewise (when they’re done safely) and alternative treatments for severe, treatment-resistant depression and OCD and other mental health issues. But some people continue to demonise them while (especially in this Britain) one of the greatest poisons of all, alcohol, continues to be glorified. I’m far from teetotal but the thing is I’m not a hypocrite either. Alcohol is one of the most destructive drugs in the world (ethanol is literally poison, no matter how nicely packaged) and there’s no medical benefit to be gleaned from it beyond a bit of red wine at dinner or a sprinkling of beer, but it gets a free pass in places like the UK because it just happens to be the first drug that was socially accepted, and people expect you to drink to your liver’s discontent every weekend and all Christmas. But if you’re pro-alcohol and anti-weed/mushrooms, something in the reasoning’s flawed and very wrong. Especially if you expect people to not see you as a homeless alkie with alcoholic paranoia/hallucinosis and advanced cirrhosis lying in a vodka-den but can’t hear sense about some of these other substances without assuming that the person’s a stoner-bum who lies in a den of green iniquity and doesn’t accomplish anything for themselves all day. If they’re like that, chances are it won’t be the weed.

[Redway]

Artificial intelligence/AI (not that it’s a little ting at this point). I stan authenticity too much. To hell with all this GBT chatline nonsense. Why are humans now consulting robots?

[Zizu]

Artificial intelligence/AI (not that it’s a little ting at this point). I stan authenticity too much. To hell with all this GBT chatline nonsense. Why are humans now consulting robots?


https://apps.apple.com/app/id1670810819


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[Redway]

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1670810819


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I know your randomness is supposed to be part of the charm but it’s not always funny. Here’s a good example of that.

[Zizu]

I know your randomness is supposed to be part of the charm but it’s not always funny. Here’s a good example of that.


????

I was just showing that there’s a free Ai spp readily available .. I wasn’t suggesting or recommending it to you ..


Maybe it’s just an example of how things get misunderstood or misinterpreted in text !!


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[Mystic Mock]

Artificial intelligence/AI (not that it’s a little ting at this point). I stan authenticity too much. To hell with all this GBT chatline nonsense. Why are humans now consulting robots?

Humanity is too obsessed with mechanical stuff, and I say that as someone that loves Video Games, Psycho-Pass and Ergo Proxy.:laugh:

[Redway]

????

I was just showing that there’s a free Ai spp readily available .. I wasn’t suggesting or recommending it to you ..


Maybe it’s just an example of how things get misunderstood or misinterpreted in text !!


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I didn’t really ask to see the AI app and you should’ve been able to figure as much from my post. Text or no text, there wasn’t really much to misunderstand. It’s just you.

[Redway]

Humanity is too obsessed with mechanical stuff, and I say that as someone that loves Video Games, Psycho-Pass and Ergo Proxy.:laugh:

Nah, video games are an important creation (not that I’ve ever played much of them myself). Mortal Kombat and GTA aren’t taking people’s jobs by the minute or making people put more and more trust in robots. I’m just not comfortable with where AI’s taking us as a society.

[Mystic Mock]

Nah, video games are an important creation (not that I’ve ever played much of them myself). Mortal Kombat and GTA aren’t taking people’s jobs by the minute or making people put more and more trust in robots. I’m just not comfortable with where AI’s taking us as a society.

Oh I can see your point tbf.

[Zizu]

I didn’t really ask to see the AI app and you should’ve been able to figure as much from my post. Text or no text, there wasn’t really much to misunderstand. It’s just you.


It really isn’t ..

I maybe didn’t really explain myself well enough and you just decided to take umbrage anyways


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[Zizu]

Nah, video games are an important creation (not that I’ve ever played much of them myself). Mortal Kombat and GTA aren’t taking people’s jobs by the minute or making people put more and more trust in robots. I’m just not comfortable with where AI’s taking us as a society.


So how has AI impacted on your life .. thus far ?!


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[Redway]

So how has AI impacted on your life .. thus far ?!


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Never you mind.

[Redway]

The way everyone seems to have a cough-and-sniff cold at the moment but are wandering around the shops mask-less instead of working. If you’re not getting paid to be out, stay in bed and do your Christmas shopping online. I don’t want your bug.

[Redway]

Parents trying to marry off their young-adult children in their 20s just so they can have some grandkids to boast about. I understand where it comes from but I think it’s disgusting. And it takes at least 9 months to do all that and put to bed anyway.

I’m mentioning this because it seems to be especially common. We know that but I don’t think we talk enough about toxic pressure. Timing can be unfortunate but some things just can’t be rushed.

[Niamh.]

Parents trying to marry off their young-adult children in their 20s just so they can have some grandkids to boast about. I understand where it comes from but I think it’s disgusting. And it takes at least 9 months to do all that and put to bed anyway.

I’m mentioning this because it seems to be especially common. We know that but I don’t think we talk enough about toxic pressure. Timing can be unfortunate but some things just can’t be rushed.Common, really? Most parents I know want the opposite for their kids, want them to travel and get their education before they tie themselves down with kids and a mortgage. Sometimes when I read your posts I feel like we're living in a parallel universe [emoji23]

[Redway]

Common, really? Most parents I know want the opposite for their kids, want them to travel and get their education before they tie themselves down with kids and a mortgage. Sometimes when I read your posts I feel like we're living in a parallel universe [emoji23]

Yeah, our reference points might be somewhat different at times but that thing I’m talking about is very-much sometimes a thing.

[Redway]

People turning Instagram into TikTok with constant videos instead of pictures (unless it’s a designated channel supposed to have more videos than photos; that’s different) and having whatever audio I’m listening to at that time being paused and cancelled out because of that video’s audio.

[Redway]

Constant affair stories in soaps and just the same pregnacy loops/reveal-threats over and over and over again. This Tracey/Caleb thing on Emmerdale feels like the last straw. It’s just the same thing being rehashed for the 700-and-umpteenth time for the sake of cheap drama.

[Swan]

Anti-drugs hypocrisy (as a general note).

Cannabis as a plant is varied and packed with all sorts of benefits (from various non-psychoactive cannabinoids, like CBN and CBD, to actual THC, like it or not) and ketamine and psychedelics likewise (when they’re done safely) and alternative treatments for severe, treatment-resistant depression and OCD and other mental health issues. But some people continue to demonise them while (especially in this Britain) one of the greatest poisons of all, alcohol, continues to be glorified. I’m far from teetotal but the thing is I’m not a hypocrite either. Alcohol is one of the most destructive drugs in the world (ethanol is literally poison, no matter how nicely packaged) and there’s no medical benefit to be gleaned from it beyond a bit of red wine at dinner or a sprinkling of beer, but it gets a free pass in places like the UK because it just happens to be the first drug that was socially accepted, and people expect you to drink to your liver’s discontent every weekend and all Christmas. But if you’re pro-alcohol and anti-weed/mushrooms, something in the reasoning’s flawed and very wrong. Especially if you expect people to not see you as a homeless alkie with alcoholic paranoia/hallucinosis and advanced cirrhosis lying in a vodka-den but can’t hear sense about some of these other substances without assuming that the person’s a stoner-bum who lies in a den of green iniquity and doesn’t accomplish anything for themselves all day. If they’re like that, chances are it won’t be the weed.


I rarely agree with what you say, and i know you rarely agree with what i say, but you are absolutely spot on in that post.

I've been watching quite a bit of telly over Christmas, films and tv shows old and new, and one thing that is a constant is alcohol. It's so unbelievably normalised in our every day lives, yet offers no health benefits whatsoever. It's bad for you mentally and physically. And it's massively overrated too.

I don't watch modern soaps, only classic Eastenders, but my God, alcohol is consumed 24/7. Any scenario and every scenario calls for a drink, it's crazy really.

There was a show called People Just Do Nothing, quite good tbh, and appealing for people of my age (mid 30's). Anyway, a character on there takes drugs all the time, it's his character's make up, yet he's offered a drink and says "oh nah i don't touch that stuff, messes with your head" :joker: Excellent line, and much truer than we've been conditioned to believe.

[Beso]

People who say.. "I dont usually agree with you, but...."

Like it somehow makes the opinion more valid cause THEY agree.

[Swan]

People who say.. "I dont usually agree with you, but...."

Like it somehow makes the opinion more valid cause THEY agree.

No not at all. I was just pointing out that myself and Redway rarely agree, however i agree with him 100% on this one. It was more a point of even if people don't like each other, there is always common ground to be found.

Doesn't mean what you're saying.

[Zizu]

Constant affair stories in soaps and just the same pregnacy loops/reveal-threats over and over and over again. This Tracey/Caleb thing on Emmerdale feels like the last straw. It’s just the same thing being rehashed for the 700-and-umpteenth time for the sake of cheap drama.


Plus they let the storylines slip in advance ..

Sh1te


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[Redway]

I rarely agree with what you say, and i know you rarely agree with what i say, but you are absolutely spot on in that post.

I've been watching quite a bit of telly over Christmas, films and tv shows old and new, and one thing that is a constant is alcohol. It's so unbelievably normalised in our every day lives, yet offers no health benefits whatsoever. It's bad for you mentally and physically. And it's massively overrated too.

I don't watch modern soaps, only classic Eastenders, but my God, alcohol is consumed 24/7. Any scenario and every scenario calls for a drink, it's crazy really.

There was a show called People Just Do Nothing, quite good tbh, and appealing for people of my age (mid 30's). Anyway, a character on there takes drugs all the time, it's his character's make up, yet he's offered a drink and says "oh nah i don't touch that stuff, messes with your head" :joker: Excellent line, and much truer than we've been conditioned to believe.

Yup. The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Redway]

And for the record, Swan, I don’t hate you (and classic EastEnders is one thing we probably converge on). I just … ya. We just have to agree to disagree on most things.

[Redway]

Anti-drugs hypocrisy (as a general note).

Cannabis as a plant is varied and packed with all sorts of benefits (from various non-psychoactive cannabinoids, like CBN and CBD, to actual THC, like it or not) and ketamine and psychedelics likewise (when they’re done safely) and alternative treatments for severe, treatment-resistant depression and OCD and other mental health issues. But some people continue to demonise them while (especially in this Britain) one of the greatest poisons of all, alcohol, continues to be glorified. I’m far from teetotal but the thing is I’m not a hypocrite either. Alcohol is one of the most destructive drugs in the world (ethanol is literally poison, no matter how nicely packaged) and there’s no medical benefit to be gleaned from it beyond a bit of red wine at dinner or a sprinkling of beer, but it gets a free pass in places like the UK because it just happens to be the first drug that was socially accepted, and people expect you to drink to your liver’s discontent every weekend and all Christmas. But if you’re pro-alcohol and anti-weed/mushrooms, something in the reasoning’s flawed and very wrong. Especially if you expect people to not see you as a homeless alkie with alcoholic paranoia/hallucinosis and advanced cirrhosis lying in a vodka-den but can’t hear sense about some of these other substances without assuming that the person’s a stoner-bum who lies in a den of green iniquity and doesn’t accomplish anything for themselves all day. If they’re like that, chances are it won’t be the weed.

Let’s just sit with that for a minute.

[Redway]

I rarely agree with what you say, and i know you rarely agree with what i say, but you are absolutely spot on in that post.

I've been watching quite a bit of telly over Christmas, films and tv shows old and new, and one thing that is a constant is alcohol. It's so unbelievably normalised in our every day lives, yet offers no health benefits whatsoever. It's bad for you mentally and physically. And it's massively overrated too.

I don't watch modern soaps, only classic Eastenders, but my God, alcohol is consumed 24/7. Any scenario and every scenario calls for a drink, it's crazy really.

There was a show called People Just Do Nothing, quite good tbh, and appealing for people of my age (mid 30's). Anyway, a character on there takes drugs all the time, it's his character's make up, yet he's offered a drink and says "oh nah i don't touch that stuff, messes with your head" :joker: Excellent line, and much truer than we've been conditioned to believe.

Again, yes. If me and Swan can agree on something, it must be quite-something. And I say all this as someone who might as well be in the pub right now.

As far as EastEnders goes, characters who they make a point of as being skint at any one time (Karen and Bianca no less) still manage to find enough loose change inside the couch to have a few drinks. They’re not exactly doing it by halves either. And they definitely don’t do tabs at the Queen Vic. Ordinary to humble themselves and order a half or a cheap shandy to reflect their lack of money, they will not. It still ends up being pint upon bottle of Prosecco when they can barely afford to feed the kids. Where alcohol’s involved they’ll always find the money.

Some people might resent me putting Karen in the same sentence as Queen Patsy-B but one thing they both have/had in common is being skit mums who liked a good drink. Most nights and most afternoons alike. The way it jars is almost as annoying as those Insta posts matching up brands of wine with breakfast foods, just promoting and enabling borderline alcoholism on weekdays. Unless you’ve just done a night shift or it’s the weekend/something special (like Christmas), you should not be drinking wine with your Cornflakes at 7am. There’s starting early and there’s being one step away from rehab.

[Redway]

Racism is still a problem unfortunately but things like “most white people don’t want us here” aren’t true. I think a lot of black people see white people as more inherently racist than they are. And you can find micro-aggressions that tally up with every form of “ism” out there without the seriousness of any one type of discrimination being trivialised (God forbid). There are a lot of similarities and common ground for making someone your person or at least finding them worthy of interest that cut beyond the colour of any one person’s skin.

There’s just a certain closed insularity a lot of people (of all races) have and then there’s this thing of being obsessed with everyone outside said marginalised/discriminated-against community having to do lots of work just so they can finally say they’re not prejudiced. In a world filled with so many issues and where the average person is just trying to survive and put bread on the table, learning about every possible thing under the sun that someone might take as a micro-aggression of some kind (whether it’s racial, gender-related, age-related, sexuality-related, whatever) is a bit much. Cultural diversity is huge and that’s worthy of attention and celebration but people are still people. You’re still an individual before you’re anything else. You’re still a person before you’re Igbo, Yoruba, Black British, Jamaican, Irish, German, mixed race or Scouse. You have your own individual personality and essence which sure does take a fair bit of influence from some of your demographics but there’s still only one you. No other person is going to be exactly like you just because they have ancestral roots in the same place or have sexual feelings for the same gender as you. Your demographics, diagnosis or environment don’t define you 100%.

[Zizu]

I get irritated by the lowering standards in advertising .

They say that ‘sex sells’ hence all the gorgeous people featured in most tv advertisements..

Now I’m noticing more and more things like Maltesers .. who are using two young women referring to selling dirty socks to perverts on eBay or SpecSavers who have a couple laughing together when hubby realises that the wife has read loads of explicit books ..

Has it always been this way or am I just being more observant ?


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[Zizu]

Foreign dentists to be allowed to work in UK without qualification checks
Ministers plan to scrap exam required to allow dentists from countries outside of Europe to work here, in a bid to solve dentistry crisis


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[Gusto Brunt]

People who talk about the distant past as if it were yesterday or even today.

I bumped into someone I once knew, yesterday afternoon, and he was talking about things from 2008 and how angry he still is with certain people.

Jeez.

It proved to be a very boring conversation from his end. :p

[Gusto Brunt]

I get irritated by the lowering standards in advertising .

They say that ‘sex sells’ hence all the gorgeous people featured in most tv advertisements..

Now I’m noticing more and more things like Maltesers .. who are using two young women referring to selling dirty socks to perverts on eBay or SpecSavers who have a couple laughing together when hubby realises that the wife has read loads of explicit books ..

Has it always been this way or am I just being more observant ?


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Prostitution is rife. I was looking at an ad in a newsagent's window the other day and a woman was supposedly offering herself as a cleaner.

But she used words like 'Willing African lady...satisfaction guaranteed...Older men only':shocked:

You didn't have to read between the lines, it was blatant. :p

[Zizu]

Prostitution is rife. I was looking at an ad in a newsagent's window the other day and a woman was supposedly offering herself as a cleaner.

But she used words like 'Willing African lady...satisfaction guaranteed...Older men only':shocked:

You didn't have to read between the lines, it was blatant. :p


I heard an advert on the radio last night . It was a well known financial firm and the dialogue included something along the lines of .. “ no my friend .. she didn’t refer you to a ‘banker’ “

It’s just such a shame how standards are being eroded


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[Jordan.]

When someone presses the stop button on a bus after it's already been pressed, you aren't the main character.

[Ammi]

When someone presses the stop button on a bus after it's already been pressed, you aren't the main character.

…:laugh:…or when everyone who walks up to a pedestrian/traffic light crossing to wait, also presses the walk button when it’s already lit up as being pressed…I swear it makes the green walk man slow down in coming just for the heck of it all and to troll the walkers…

[bots]

i'm that person :smug:

[Ammi]

i'm that person :smug:

…retired people and their simple life pleasures …:laugh:..

…oh, maybe you meant the button on the bus..just letting them young’uns know that you can press that button all day long because your bus pass makes you that MAIN CHARACTER…

[bots]

i do both, you will know it's me when you hear the cackle :laugh:

[Zizu]

…:laugh:…or when everyone who walks up to a pedestrian/traffic light crossing to wait, also presses the walk button when it’s already lit up as being pressed…I swear it makes the green walk man slow down in coming just for the heck of it all and to troll the walkers…


What about those imbeciles ( of all ages) who press the pelican crossing button when they are just walking past the pelican but not going over the crossing ..


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[Ammi]

…waiting in for parcels../..deliveries…

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[Ammi]

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[Gusto Brunt]

There's a guy who parks his car outside the house I live in.

He does this every morning. He first gets out the car, slams the door. Then he realises he's forgotten something, opens door, then slams it again.

He does this slamming about 10 times I am not kidding. Without fail.

EVERY weekday.:fist:

[Zizu]

There's a guy who parks his car outside the house I live in.

He does this every morning. He first gets out the car, slams the door. Then he realises he's forgotten something, opens door, then slams it again.

He does this slamming about 10 times I am not kidding. Without fail.

EVERY weekday.:fist:


Time to buy a cross bow ..

:)


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[Gusto Brunt]

Time to buy a cross bow ..

:)


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:joker:

[Redway]

Classic Corrie being gone from ITVX and being left with the fascination of … cantankerous Edna and flipping Sam Dingle.

[Mystic Mock]

I get irritated by the lowering standards in advertising .

They say that ‘sex sells’ hence all the gorgeous people featured in most tv advertisements..

Now I’m noticing more and more things like Maltesers .. who are using two young women referring to selling dirty socks to perverts on eBay or SpecSavers who have a couple laughing together when hubby realises that the wife has read loads of explicit books ..

Has it always been this way or am I just being more observant ?


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And there's me catching Adverts involving kids at Amusement Parks, Car Insurance, and Erectile Dysfunction.:joker:

[Zizu]

I get irritated by the lowering standards in advertising .

They say that ‘sex sells’ hence all the gorgeous people featured in most tv advertisements..

Now I’m noticing more and more things like Maltesers .. who are using two young women referring to selling dirty socks to perverts on eBay or SpecSavers who have a couple laughing together when hubby realises that the wife has read loads of explicit books ..

Has it always been this way or am I just being more observant ?


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Currently Autogiass have a motto to the effect of ‘we aren’t a pain in the ‘glass’ ( meaning arse) ..

There’s a heating firm using a narrative of “ I’ll be hot and steamy , wherever you want me ‘ with the voice of a sensual woman. ..


Jet Too

“ look at them go - booking geniuses”

It definitely sounds like vucking!


WTF !!!


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[bots]

sex has always been used in adverts

think cadbury flake

[Mystic Mock]

Currently Autogiass have a motto to the effect of ‘we aren’t a pain in the ‘glass’ ( meaning arse) ..

There’s a heating firm using a narrative of “ I’ll be hot and steamy , wherever you want me ‘ with the voice of a sensual woman. ..


Jet Too

“ look at them go - booking geniuses”

It definitely sounds like vucking!


WTF !!!


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Jet Too's is a classic.:joker:

I need to catch the heating firm one.:laugh:

[Zizu]

Jet Too's is a classic.:joker:

I need to catch the heating firm one.:laugh:


It’s a constant erosion of standards


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[Mystic Mock]

It’s a constant erosion of standards


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Better Adverts being sexed up, than being sexless like Western TV Shows and Video Games.

[Zizu]

Royalty stuff https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240310/dc20fc16292074e22399dc82c9c66ab6.jpg


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[Zizu]

It’s a constant erosion of standards


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Nationwide advert

The manager says ‘ this person can’t even spell ‘banker’ ..

Assistant says “ it’s not ‘banker’ “


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[Gusto Brunt]

I've just noticed this in the last couple of weeks, the amount of people (mainly women) who throw their shopping basket on the pile leaving it askew.

It takes nothing to make sure it's straight, so another basket can be easily put on top.

[Redway]

When people talk about women as a conglomerate.

It’s mostly blokes I’ve noticed doing what you’re talking about so what the hell, Gusto? Why did you decide to make this one about gender?

[Mystic Mock]

Nationwide advert

The manager says ‘ this person can’t even spell ‘banker’ ..

Assistant says “ it’s not ‘banker’ “


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:laugh:

[Redway]

Brews that are overly hot. I want to be able to get into it after about a minute and a half of waiting.

[GlitterUK]

The advert where the kid is licking chocolate off nuts and then the guy eats the nuts. Grosses me out.

[Zizu]

The advert where the kid is licking chocolate off nuts and then the guy eats the nuts. Grosses me out.


Oh my lord .. you’d pass out at this …

I used to support an autistic teenager and when we joined a class he immediately sat down and started searching under the desks for old chewing gum then pop it into his mouth !

Had me retching on a fairly regular basis !


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[Mystic Mock]

Oh my lord .. you’d pass out at this …

I used to support an autistic teenager and when we joined a class he immediately sat down and started searching under the desks for old chewing gum then pop it into his mouth!

Had me retching on a fairly regular basis !


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:yuk:

[Redway]

Going nowhere in a pointlessly roundabout way on situations, things or people you don’t know in a way that doesn’t make sense (because you just haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about) but being so stubborn to the truth because it doesn’t align with the image that you want to project about this particular situation. Of course the truth’s going to make a bit more sense. Just admit you’re wrong. Don’t hold onto something obstinately because you’re looking for debate or gossip when you know that what you saying makes literally zero sense. You’re essentially rambling on about nothing in actual reality.

The truth ain’t necessarily gonna come at you with a bunch of white carnations but when it comes, swallow it and shut up. Thinking you know situations and people when you actually don’t and you’re shooting yourself in the foot with every clapped line that comes out of your mouth. If you now run to put it on a gossipy or preachy pedestal, you’re taking it up by levels and embarrassing yourself even more.

[Redway]

People still banging on about Covid. It’s mutated and been vaccinated against to the back-bone so much that it’s no more than a moderate cold for most people at this point (and it was never more than that for a lot of people to begin with, Delta-variant aside). If you’re still freaking out, take some fluvoxamine and move on. Covid’s just another bug in addition to the usual cold and flu that people have been aware of since the end of 2019 and that’s that. The direction of your life and its trajectory has nothing to do with a stupid virus.

[Gusto Brunt]

People still banging on about Covid. It’s mutated and been vaccinated against to the back-bone so much that it’s no more than a moderate cold for most people at this point. If you’re still freaking out, take some fluvoxamine and move on.

I still see people wearing masks. Must be horrible having your face covered.

[Redway]

I still see people wearing masks. Must be horrible having your face covered.

The thing about masks per-se I get. It’s a convenient way to uphold boundaries with people you aren’t extra-familiar with or maybe you want to just … not spread your cold or measles. It shouldn’t have taken people besides health workers and lab. scientists a whole pandemic to realise the benefits of masks but people who wear them specifically because they’re still scared of Covid are just being ridiculous.

For introverts the pandemic was even a blessing in the sense of “social isolation” becoming the norm and in any case it’s good that people know now that a lot of things can be done virtually via Zoom/Teams than face-to-face all the time but beyond that nothing’s changed. Letting your life trajectory be defined by whatever convenient global landmark that gives you an excuse for not getting your ish together or discovering who you really are (9/11, the 2007-08 credit-crunch, Brexit, Trump, Covid) is beyond pathetic. Brits especially just love to whinge and moan about the present moment and there’s always something.

[Zizu]

I still see people wearing masks. Must be horrible having your face covered.


This .. and walking alone in the streets with a cheap mask is preposterous


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[Redway]

The feeling of being borderline/just missing an opportunity. Almost but not quite. Urgh.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

When I want to touch myself but it's that time of the month :bawling:

[Zizu]

When I want to touch myself but it's that time of the month :bawling:


Payday ?


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[Redway]

Payday ?


[emoji4]


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Erm.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Payday ?


[emoji4]


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There certainly is a price on being a woman :bawling:

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Erm.

:hehe:

[Redway]

Little kids in pubs. Just make it stop.

[Redway]

Extraverts taking it upon themselves to be more pissed off than the actual celebrants that you didn’t attend that party or wedding. Like they feel entitled to your social presence. The celebrant’s not even that arsed that I sat this one out so why are you? Why can’t ‘I’m there in the spirit and wish you all the best but I may or may not show up this time if we ain’t super-close’ be enough for some people?

[Crimson Dynamo]

People who say "oh god i just cant shake this cold iv had it for 2 weeks now"

or "yes I have heard that there is a lot of it going around at the moment"

:rolleyes:

[bots]

People who say "oh god i just cant shake this cold iv had it for 2 weeks now"

or "yes I have heard that there is a lot of it going around at the moment"

:rolleyes:

there's a lot of it going around at the moment

[Crimson Dynamo]

there's a lot of it going around at the moment

tell me about it, I have had this thing for like 3 weeks now - just cant seem to shake it off!

😵

[Redway]

tell me about it, I have had this thing for like 3 weeks now - just cant seem to shake it off!

😵

Always something “going ’round.”

[Redway]

The fact that pubs aren’t really allowed to sell pints in old-fashioned mug-handled pint glasses anymore. Like, what the hell?

[Ammi]

The fact that pubs aren’t really allowed to sell pints in old-fashioned mug-handled pint glasses anymore. Like, what the hell?

…are you allowed to take your own mug into your local pub, Redway…?…

[bots]

i think the pint mug restriction came from an EU directive, which no longer applies

[Redway]

…are you allowed to take your own mug into your local pub, Redway…?…

I honestly haven't got a clue. I’ve never tried that. But probably not.

i think the pint mug restriction came from an EU directive, which no longer applies

If it no-longer applies then why do pubs keeping saying it does?

[Beso]

Why tortoises havnt evolved wheels for legs.

[Zizu]

Why tortoises havnt evolved wheels for legs.


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[Beso]

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Turtles already have..

https://youtube.com/shorts/rSfi_ZYlhsU?si=wFrS3-q-68kcodLb

[Beso]

Makes no difference to some of us. :laugh:

36AH6M3mhaY

Wheels and wings..that's what they need.

[Redway]

Seriously, what’s going on with the pint-glass situation? Why can’t it be the ’80s again for just one quiet evening? Who’s lamping who with a pint-handle? Who even does that?

[Mystic Mock]

Man City only being point off being top of the table.:fist:

You can't trust the Vile to do anything that you want them to do.:joker:

[Redway]

No-one joining me for a mug-handled pint of Heineken, no? No-one?

[Mystic Mock]

No-one joining me for a mug-handled pint of Heineken, no? No-one?

I'm not a Beer type of guy tbh.:laugh:

[Ammi]

I honestly haven't got a clue. I’ve never tried that. But probably not.



If it no-longer applies then why do pubs keeping saying it does?

…ahhh, that’s something that’s always happened in locals I’ve known…but they’re more village pubs…?…and maybe it’s not so much that, that’s a thing in town pubs etc…regulars take in their own glass or tankard etc and it’s kept in the bar…like taking your coffee mug to work for coffee breaks, I guess…:laugh:…

[Redway]

…ahhh, that’s something that’s always happened in locals I’ve known…but they’re more village pubs…?…and maybe it’s not so much that, that’s a thing in town pubs etc…regulars take in their own glass or tankard etc and it’s kept in the bar…like taking your coffee mug to work for coffee breaks, I guess…:laugh:…

Sounds like I’ll have to get Suffolk-interior pub-hopping, then.

[Redway]

I'm not a Beer type of guy tbh.:laugh:

What do you drink, laddie?

[MTVN]

Seriously, what’s going on with the pint-glass situation? Why can’t it be the ’80s again for just one quiet evening? Who’s lamping who with a pint-handle? Who even does that?

Any pub selling Budvar should be doing it in these glasses

https://budweiserbudvar.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/10/23A1598.jpg

The old style ale ones occasionally get used in my village pub but I don't see many of them elsewhere

[Mystic Mock]

What do you drink, laddie?

I'm not the heaviest drinker tbh.

But I do like Whiskey, Cider, and Rum.

[Redway]

Any pub selling Budvar should be doing it in these glasses

https://budweiserbudvar.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/10/23A1598.jpg

The old style ale ones occasionally get used in my village pub but I don't see many of them elsewhere

Yeah. Exactly.

Everything is so sanitised these days it’s a joke. It started in 2007 but at this point even bar staff perpetuate BS (in this case about old-style pint glasses being more dangerous). Not being trusted with a glass mug all-of a sudden really is such a big deal.

[bots]

standard glass sizes are easier to pour, store and wash in the machine. Pubs do everything based on efficiency, it's not difficult to see why everything is standardised

[Redway]

standard glass sizes are easier to pour, store and wash in the machine. Pubs do everything based on efficiency, it's not difficult to see why everything is standardised

It never used to be just about efficiency, and it’s not just efficiency that’s resulted in them not serving people with glass-mugs anymore. There’s a wack argument out there that they’re inherently dangerous and that blokes get fighting easier with them than with regular pint glasses.

[Redway]

People conflating introversion with being highly sensitive. For every delicate, anime-like INFP figure renowned for sensitivity there’s a cold, characteristically insensitive, cuttingly antisocial INTJ (and a moderately well-rounded INFJ with a knack for human psychology and solitude but also reasonable amounts of external stimulation caught in the middle to boot). The extreme poles of hyper-sensitivity and coldness can be mutually present in the same person, or it might be one or the other. That’s one of the reasons why I don’t like to say too much about just-plain social introversion and extroversion without referencing broader personality frameworks (like MBTI), because the meaning for both is too subjective and vague and you could be talking about two completely different kinds of people. One’s a stereotypical chess-maverick or egoistical mastermind with a penchant for conspiracy-theories, the other’s an accommodating and well-wishing but ‘stick to the sidelines’ kind of calm person who prefers to socialise quietly and in moderation and the other’s the sensitive, delicate, cuddly poet or counsellor who’s part of the “are we trying to code HSP as female/sensitive male autism (as-opposed to the stereotypical male-dominated ASD) or are we inherently not pathologising this and seeing it as its own distinct personality which overlaps onto introversion without fail” squad. And so-on. Outer social demeanour is just one side to a personality. Few people are ever just quiet or just loud.

[Beso]

I think I'm a sensitive cuddly poet,
Just dont know it

[Redway]

This British habit of forever whinging and moaning about the present moment and looking back on the past with rose-tinted nostalgia even though at the time they were saying it was the worst ever and doing the exact same thing. On a broader global landscape 2018 (minus all this non-binary nonsense going into overdrive) was like a gem in the rough of a very bad decade for news and politics and even that had huge problems. Complaining about the present moment and using convenient landmarks (9/11, 2008 credit-crunch, increasing immigration being an excuse to fuel disgusting xenophobia, Brexit, ISIS, Covid) as the point when things went wrong is just such bad vibes. And the U.K. is just full of bad vibes as it is.

[Redway]

Also. This stupid guy narrating Psych2Go now. Amanda Silvera is a prominent, characteristically sootning voice behind Psych2Go and she can lift even the crappiest of videos to something worth listening to. Without her vocals there’s barely any point watching the channel. I don’t mind the other female narrators but the bottom line is we want Silvera and that’s that. If she’s not in it at all anymore then Psych2Go might as well get cancelled. It’s basically a hub for over-sexualisation and teenage crushes now anyway and even Silvera’s vocals couldn’t save some of that garb.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

This British habit of forever whinging and moaning about the present moment and looking back on the past with rose-tinted nostalgia even though at the time they were saying it was the worst ever and doing the exact same thing. On a broader global landscape 2018 (minus all this non-binary nonsense going into overdrive) was like a gem in the rough of a very bad decade for news and politics and even that had huge problems. Complaining about the present moment and using convenient landmarks (9/11, 2008 credit-crunch, increasing immigration being an excuse to fuel disgusting xenophobia, Brexit, ISIS, Covid) as the point when things went wrong is just such bad vibes. And the U.K. is just full of bad vibes as it is.

Preach!!

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

When there's an awesome song in a movie but the characters won't stop talking for a second so I can Shazam

[Redway]

Knots being tied too tight.

[Zizu]

When there's an awesome song in a movie but the characters won't stop talking for a second so I can Shazam


Definitely !


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[Zizu]

Coat hangers


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[Ammi]

When there's an awesome song in a movie but the characters won't stop talking for a second so I can Shazam

…there’s probably lots of sites but the one I use is Tunefund…(…just because I’m familiar with navigating the layout etc…)…but you’ll be able to get every track from a movie/series soundtrack…and (..I think…)..it might list the scene as well that the track plays in, so it’s easier to find…I’m not sure about that bit, though …so you might have to scroll through other songs from the soundtrack…that doesn’t take long, though …because each one is only a few seconds of the song…anyway, Shazam will become an antiquated old fool once you discover Tunefund….

[Ammi]

Knots being tied too tight.

…unless it’s a know that’s holding you on a mountain face or something and stopping you from falling …?..I would want that knot pretty darn tight…as tight as tight can be…

[Zizu]

…there’s probably lots of sites but the one I use is Tunefund…(…just because I’m familiar with navigating the layout etc…)…but you’ll be able to get every track from a movie/series soundtrack…and (..I think…)..it might list the scene as well that the track plays in, so it’s easier to find…I’m not sure about that bit, though …so you might have to scroll through other songs from the soundtrack…that doesn’t take long, though …because each one is only a few seconds of the song…anyway, Shazam will become an antiquated old fool once you discover Tunefund….


Really ?

I can’t imagine life without Shazam

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[Zizu]

Link to Tunefund ??


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[Ammi]

Really ?

I can’t imagine life without Shazam

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…if that’s what works for you and you’re generally able to find your tune quickly etc…?…then that’s all good…but in terms of what CeeCee described and you don’t have enough of the tune to Shazam…?…then Tunefund is a great site, it’s my go to…

[Ammi]

Link to Tunefund ??


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https://www.tunefind.com/


…(…a ‘please’ would have been very lovely …but, you’re welcome…)….

[Zizu]

https://www.tunefind.com/


…(…a ‘please’ would have been very lovely …but, you’re welcome…)….


Thank you !!

[emoji4]

Apologies…

My manners are usually impeccable ..


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[Ammi]

Thank you !!

[emoji4]

Apologies…

My manners are usually impeccable ..


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…:love:…

[Zizu]

https://www.tunefind.com/


…(…a ‘please’ would have been very lovely …but, you’re welcome…)….


Looks interesting but it looks like it works alongside Shazam rather instead of ??


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[Ammi]

Looks interesting but it looks like it works alongside Shazam rather instead of ??


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…as CeeCee said, though…about not been able to Shazam because the dialogue was voiced too loudly over the track…?…it doesn’t require being able to Shazam a few seconds or knowing a lyric line or whatever…you just need to know what you’re watching at the time…:laugh:…and it’ll give you the complete soundtrack…

[Beso]

Warwick Davis

[Ammi]

…:laugh:…you looney, parmnion…he might say that you’re a big thing that irritates him…

[Redway]

The fact that the world as it is is so capitalistic that you’re disciplined for being off sick like a naughty school kid who kicked a ball on a teacher’s head by accident. People can’t help being ill and that’s generally something you’d want to meet with more sympathy than scolding.

[Beso]

…:laugh:…you looney, parmnion…he might say that you’re a big thing that irritates him…

I feel bad now .....

[Zizu]

…as CeeCee said, though…about not been able to Shazam because the dialogue was voiced too loudly over the track…?…it doesn’t require being able to Shazam a few seconds or knowing a lyric line or whatever…you just need to know what you’re watching at the time…:laugh:…and it’ll give you the complete soundtrack…


Shazam rarely fails and then i just google the lyrics I can hear ..


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[Redway]

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

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

[Zizu]

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

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


Fabulous post !!!


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[Redway]

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

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

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

[Zizu]

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

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

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


Interesting you mentioned money and depression..

It reminds me of Chester Bennington ( Linkin Park) who had untold wealth , fabulously successful career and a beautiful young family …


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[LaLaLand]

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

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

As someone who has suffered with chronic and at times quite severe, bedridden-ing depression for almost fifteen years this was a joy to read Redway. :love:

[Zizu]

As someone who has suffered with chronic and at times quite severe, bedridden-ing depression for almost fifteen years this was a joy to read Redway. :love:


Yes … sadly depression and extreme anxiety came with my Aspergers/ autism as a ‘bonus extra’ … even pne of my primary school reports when I was about 6 mentions that I was an ‘anxious little boy’

No improvements 60 years later..


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[Mystic Mock]

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

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

I definitely agree with a lot of your points Redway.

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

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

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

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

[Mystic Mock]

Interesting you mentioned money and depression..

It reminds me of Chester Bennington ( Linkin Park) who had untold wealth , fabulously successful career and a beautiful young family …


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Chester Bennington will always be a sad loss to the world imo.

[Ammi]

I feel bad now .....

…how weird that was …but no, don’t feel bad because it was said with lightness and affection and not in any type of negative way…

[Mystic Mock]

…how weird that was …but no, don’t feel bad because it was said with lightness and affection and not in any type of negative way…

Exactly.

It was all in good fun from what I can tell.

[Redway]

Interesting you mentioned money and depression..

It reminds me of Chester Bennington ( Linkin Park) who had untold wealth , fabulously successful career and a beautiful young family …


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Yeah. Mental illness really doesn’t care about how healthy your bank-balance is. If you’re not healthy in the mind, you’re suffering inherently and that’s the bottom and top of it. If anything there’s even something of a link between coming from a higher socioeconomic class and having bipolar disorder (or manic depression, let’s say, since we’re using the word depression quite explicitly here, innit).

One of the reasons I’m not a big fan of SSRI antidepressants (with few exceptions, like fluvoxamine and even paroxetine) is because they’re most-often associated with mild depression, the kind that GPs throw out like candy whenever someone so much as says they’re feeling a bit low for a purely natural, reactive reason (like a tough break-up). Tricyclics and MAOIs and stuff like venlafaxine may have more severe potential side-effects but they actually are A LOT more effective in doing whatever it is they do to alleviate depression, especially the more severe it is (alongside all the other conditions they’re used to treat, and most antidepressants are quite multi-purpose in that sense). Sertraline’s a very generic drug that lazy GPs like to prescribe without really thinking it through because they don’t know you and don’t truly care about you like that or anything besides their money as far as the job’s concerned but true, nuclear antidepressants are more equivalent to rocket-fuel if sertraline’s essentially glorified paracetamol for the mind. Mild antidepressants on their own barely make any difference if you’re beyond a certain point.

Likewise, if there are any antidepressants out there that can really get to the core of OCD, it’s stuff like clomipramine and fluvoxamine. It won’t be sertraline or citalopram, but those are the scrips that average GPs tend to rush for more than anything (besides Prozac). Again, another reason why I don’t really rate GPs and primary healthcare when it comes to things related to mental health at least. They might refer a person but it might take months or even years before a shrink can see them. Until then, you’re kind of at their mercy unless it’s obvious that you’re a knowledgeable patient who knows what they’re doing and knows more about their condition and drugs/specific therapies used to treat it than them (which isn’t hard up-against GPs, who don’t know much about anything in particular but only a little about a lot).

Sometimes people really have to stick up for themselves and be their own best advocate, because 7 times out of 10 your GP is not going to fight for you when it comes to things like this. They don’t know anything.

[Redway]

As someone who has suffered with chronic and at times quite severe, bedridden-ing depression for almost fifteen years this was a joy to read Redway. :love:

Listen, thank you. I genuinely appreciate that.

“Depression is an excuse and the common cold of psychological problems.” Anyone who thinks that needs schooling on the spectrum of depression and what it really means at the deeper end. The type that seasoned psychiatrists deal with.

“I guess depression isn’t always mild.”

I guess it isn’t always severe but when it is, it’s almost worse than cancer, like I say. And in any case a natural next step is suicide and that alone is heartbreaking. But people who really know the different types and severities of depression tend to be talking about serious depression by default and not the mild “depression and anxiety” that the lay person thinks of whenever they hear the word. That’s the type of depression that shrinks and poets alike have been more concerned with since literally the dawn of time. It’s just that we live in a society that over-plays the badness of schizophrenia and trivialises depression and to a lesser extent bipolar disorder (at least in comparison, but bipolar’s generally taken as serious). So that clouds a lot of people’s scope of understanding when it comes to depression. All these illnesses are more interconnected than a lot of people (including many doctors, especially GPs who only deal with mildly depressed people) think. Staying in bed all day is not a choice beyond a certain stage.

[Redway]

Overly vague details. Has Kate Ford (Tracey Barlow) left Corrie for good or is she just on a short break? Yes, no to which? Why aren’t we getting a tangible answer to that?

[Redway]

Dr Ramani’s narrow, big-5 take on introversion and extraversion. It’s valid as far as it goes but … like, girl, you have a whole PhD in psychology and you’re a whole world-buff on narcissism. You should be beyond using candy-crush anecdotes (“it’s okay to put your feet up and just do that in a hotel-room rather than socialise; locking in with candy crush and pizza on a Saturday night is just such an introvert thing to do”) to refer to complex preferential cognitive trends. You’re too smart for that. Would you not just have a cup of tea and label yourself a light-caffeine-o-vert going by the extent of that logic?

And why did the little you do know have to be mostly inspired by Irene Hernandez? Girl, please.

I love her but dislike the narrowness of her take on introversion/extraversion psychology. That and the fact that she puts out interviews when she’s ill knowing she’s looking very haggard and unkempt with an inflamed nose and sick-friz in her hair. She needs to know her limitations and scrub up on them. The limiting view of some thing that her adherence to big 5 gives and … ya. Just stay in bed and drink plenty of fluid when you’ve got a bad cold or Covid. The world doesn’t need another narcissism video from you when you’re neglecting your health that day at that expense. Go to bed and come back when you’re replenished.

[Redway]

People who don’t think they can learn anything from someone younger than them. Yes, there are certain things you might have more direct awareness of because of more general life-experience, but everyone has their niche and a lot of things that could surprise you. Their niches might be quite a fundamental part of their existence but you’re just not aware of it because you don’t know them as well as you think you do, or maybe you do but you just don’t know this about them. And that’s okay. Life’s full of uncovering and discovering. Just remember to be a little humble and remember that age only makes you more experienced, not smarter (if anything it’s more the other way around). Everyone has something they’re at least a little smarter about than the average person and we can learn lessons from them off that bat alone. Especially when there are unique experiences connected with them. And a unique experience is a unique experience, whether you’re 18 or 180. You might’ve gone through something really tough that the average person couldn’t relate to.

[Redway]

‘Why doesn’t Liverpool-Liverpool have a Waitrose? Why’s (wo)mandem got to go to Formby or Chester just to shop at Waitrose (without getting an online delivery)?’

‘I think Waitrose is a little expensive for the average Scouser.’

‘Liverpool’s home to people from all corners of the world (world in one city, low-key) and the indigenous city itself has a lot of affluent areas. Don’t use Kenny or Tuebrook as the defining marker of the wealth that is in the city. Go to Childwall, Gateacre (where many, many rich Jews especially live, alongside the general affluence), Woolton, Allerton, Grassendale, Mossley Hill, Aigburth, Hunts Cross and the at least nice-housed parts of Halewood, West Derby and Croxteth (etc.). Liverpool is full of affluence and well-to-do areas, as well as the poorer. It’s not inherently a poor city through-and-through, and even some of those areas have decent spots/nice enclaves. If your cue about the whole city is coming from The Sun … what are you even doing reading that rag in the first place?’

… ya. Liverpool needs a Waitrose.

[Redway]

These recent ITVX warnings about strong language and upsetting scenes. What do people expect from half of these shows these days? When did people become that quick to take offence?

[Redway]

The constant notifications from Facebook from pages you’ve liked over the years. Enough is enough. It didn’t even used to be a thing until very recently.

[Redway]

Also. The fact that I’m the only one who seems to want to update this thread on a semi-regular. Pull through, mandem. It can’t just be me.

[Crimson Dynamo]

the use of the made up word mandem

I think it was made up by faded pop star Jessie James

[Zizu]

Right !!

Coat hangers drive me mad !!!!


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[Zizu]

Wires getting tangled up with each ofher !!


How does that even happen ?


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[Zizu]

Walking through a doorway and my jacket getting caught on the handle !!!!


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[Zizu]

Supermarkets when they change practically all the isles around !!!


Many of us are creatures of habit

FFS


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[Redway]

the use of the made up word mandem

I think it was made up by faded pop star Jessie James

Every word has to start or come from somewhere.

[Redway]

ATMs charging you to withdraw your own money. I’ve never understood that.

[Zizu]

The fact that flammable and inflammable mean EXACTLY the same thing !!!


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[Zizu]

Schools and colleges in England changing books and paperwork to change the spelling of Sulphur to SULFUR !!!!!


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[Zizu]

That’s it for now

I feel somewhat cleansed


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[Redway]

Hope to get some contributions from you more often, Zizu. Like I said it can’t just be moi.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Schools and colleges in England changing books and paperwork to change the spelling of Sulphur to SULFUR !!!!!


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Wtf

[Redway]

Wtf

You’re the last person in the world I’d expect to get wound up about spelling and grammar.

[Crimson Dynamo]

You’re the last person in the world I’d expect to get wound up about spelling and grammar.

That's nice dear

[Redway]

That's nice dear

At least you’re apostrophising this time.

[Mystic Mock]

These recent ITVX warnings about strong language and upsetting scenes. What do people expect from half of these shows these days? When did people become that quick to take offence?

I remember when Amazon put up a trigger warning for one of the Reacher episodes for Finnley smoking a Cigarette.:joker:

It was honestly the most pathetic thing about Reacher Season 1, it was a very good Season in general though.

[Mystic Mock]

Some Blues fans not acknowledging Tom Wagner's mistakes just because he isn't as bad as BSHL.

I had this conversation with someone on YouTube about it this morning, and I respect that the person likes Tom Wagner, but while he has done some good for the club in his first season as Blues owner, he has also done a lot wrong imo.

I don't think that he should be given a free pass just because he is better than BSHL.

[Redway]

I remember when Amazon put up a trigger warning for one of the Reacher episodes for Finnley smoking a Cigarette.:joker:

:joker:

Oh, Lordy. That’s peak.

[Mystic Mock]

:joker:

Oh, Lordy. That’s peak.

I remember being completely flabagasted.:joker:

[Redway]

1. Perpetually sickly people who always have a cough or a sniffle (like I said), whether it’s cold-and-flu season, hayfever season or none of those things whatsoever. It’s off-putting when you’re in a restaurant trying to eat and someone’s coughing their lungs out every 2 seconds or making you listen to them swallowing their own snot. Pretty gross when you put it like that, right?

2. People who forget how common all that stuff always has been and was before this Covid nonsense became a thing. COVD was literally just another thing to add to it but largely it’s been and gone. It brought about some positive changes (more online interaction when face-to-face is infeasible or unnecessary; lockdown was a whole vibe in itself, especially for introverts) but the pandemic itself is over. Some people just can’t let it go and instantly assume Covid whenever someone’s sick. And it’s annoying. Really, really annoying.

[Redway]

How quickly people turn on others because of gossip coming from narcissists. It’s probably a tale as old as time itself but seems to have gotten worse over the past 30 years. There’s so much wacked-up stuff out there that people might actually believe about you and that’s sometimes the reason they’re funny with you. You just don’t know that they’ve bought into the delusional pieties of the time that the smear-campaigning instigator has decided will be the case wherever your name’s involved, or they’ll only tell one side of the story and suck more and more people into it so that they think they know stuff about a particular person when they either don’t or it’s wildly out of context.

Do you forgive that? I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t.

But this is a thread for little things.

[Beso]

People who say tibb, like that...and not TIBB, like this.

[Redway]

Pins and needles.

[Mystic Mock]

How quickly people turn on others because of gossip coming from narcissists. It’s probably a tale as old as time itself but seems to have gotten worse over the past 30 years. There’s so much wacked-up stuff out there that people might actually believe about you and that’s sometimes the reason they’re funny with you. You just don’t know that they’ve bought into the delusional pieties of the time that the smear-campaigning instigator has decided will be the case wherever your name’s involved, or they’ll only tell one side of the story and suck more and more people into it so that they think they know stuff about a particular person when they either don’t or it’s wildly out of context.

Do you forgive that? I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t.

But this is a thread for little things.

This sounds like Piers Morgan when talking about Meghan Markle.

The gossiping part that you're referring to that is.

[Redway]

This sounds like Piers Morgan when talking about Meghan Markle.

The gossiping part that you're referring to that is.

It could just as well be anything Piers Morgan has said about anyone. Heck, anything the usual gossips were spewing about Kate Middleton when she was battling with a cancer diagnosis and just wanted some privacy and space to come to terms with it. Gossip (bad, toxic gossip) and smear-campaigning in general is just dangerous and character-assassinating.

To be fair, the whole thing I’m talking about now is part of a much, much wider theme and issue but ya. Piers Morgan is a class-A* dickhead. He deserves a standing ovation for it, only he doesn’t.

[Redway]

And unfortunately, Mock, we live in a world where (wo)mandem will believe anything about you sometimes, especially the less they know you that personally. Instead of to come to you and check what’s being said with you in a diplomatic way (which they would find a way of doing, even if second-handedly, if they really respected you and your integrity that much), they go with rumours and naysay instead.

If they don’t like you anyway, they won’t need much telling or convincing to find a reason to hate you even more or at least justify their contempt for you. But people like me have the most contempt for gossip and by extension the people who ultimately let themselves get sucked into it unquestioningly.

And what those people don’t know is that ultimately they’re being watched and it will come back to bite them eventually, whatever the situation or context (I’m just talking in general). It’s one thing to have a gossipy, nosy mind but to have a gossipy tongue you’re putting it out there indiscreetly and information’s getting out there to people who can vouch for who you’re gossiping about so nonchalantly (who might sometimes just hear you themselves), and that’s the irony. The people who like to gossip the most are by their very nature the least discreet or secretive about it. When you’ve got da window wide-open and you’re not particularly quietly/lowly-spoken or capable of hushing your tone for discretion-call’s sake, you’s being heard loud and clear. And it could be by exactly that very person you don’t want to hear your nonsense. Or they can hear you through the wall if you’re living together (as another example). They may not say anything but that doesn’t mean they don’t know. There’s only so many times a person can put the fan on to block all of that poison coming into their ears without that becoming a point of gossip in itself. Either way, a person who’s already a bit jaded and cynical/situationally worried about stuff like that is probably just a too smart to ever be that boo-boo the fool in that situation. The red flags in the atmosphere are always there in some form or other when you’re being talked about negatively for no reason and the individual gossipee often knows that, to the extent of being all-too painfully aware of it sometimes. You just cannot kid someone with sharp ears like that.

[Beso]

Ain't nobody gonna give a guy that looks like a spent flaccid penis a standing ovation.

[Redway]

Ain’t nobody gonna give a tragic excuse for a human-being a standing ovation. Of course they ain’t. Not even a sitting, lying down, REM-sleeping, comatose or dead ovation.

[Mystic Mock]

And unfortunately, Mock, we live in a world where (wo)mandem will believe anything about you sometimes, especially the less they know you that personally. Instead of to come to you and check what’s being said with you in a diplomatic way (which they would find a way of doing, even if second-handedly, if they really respected you and your integrity that much), they go with rumours and naysay instead.

If they don’t like you anyway, they won’t need much telling or convincing to find a reason to hate you even more or at least justify their contempt for you. But people like me have the most contempt for gossip and by extension the people who ultimately let themselves get sucked into it unquestioningly.

And what those people don’t know is that ultimately they’re being watched and it will come back to bite them eventually, whatever the situation or context (I’m just talking in general). It’s one thing to have a gossipy, nosy mind but to have a gossipy tongue you’re putting it out there indiscreetly and information’s getting out there to people who can vouch for who you’re gossiping about so nonchalantly (who might sometimes just hear you themselves), and that’s the irony. The people who like to gossip the most are by their very nature the least discreet or secretive about it. When you’ve got da window wide-open and you’re not particularly quietly/lowly-spoken or capable of hushing your tone for discretion-call’s sake, you’s being heard loud and clear. And it could be by exactly that very person you don’t want to hear your nonsense. Or they can hear you through the wall if you’re living together (as another example). They may not say anything but that doesn’t mean they don’t know. There’s only so many times a person can put the fan on to block all of that poison coming into their ears without that becoming a point of gossip in itself.

I 100% agree.

[Redway]

I 100% agree.

Yeah, Mock. It can’t just be a case of being paranoid when it ends up being true and people have been being talked about in the way that they were worried about. It’s like a self-fulfilling prophesy. Can represent serious mental illness in the extreme but can also be genuine reality that being cynical and jaded is just a natural follow-through result from and of. When you’ve been through the lows of smear-campaigning it can sometimes hardly make sense to be any other way, and it can last for years. You might just become more and more bitter (or at least cynical) as the years go on, because you’re used to people out there treating and talking about you badly.

[Beso]

Yeah, Mock. It can’t just be a case of being paranoid when it ends up being true and people have been being talked about in the way that they were worried about.

Now I think you mean me. Cause you think I meant you in an earlier post...I meant myself in that post, and in this thread I meant piers morgahn..

Paranoia huh...its a bummer when you read.

[Redway]

Now I think you mean me. Cause you think I meant you in an earlier post...I meant myself in that post, and in this thread I meant piers morgahn..

Paranoia huh...its a bummer when you read.

I could flip that back on you because nothing you said has anything to do with what I’m talking about. I can promise you that.

[Beso]

I could flip that back on you because nothing you said has anything to do with what I’m talking about. I can promise you that.

That's good..I'm not paranoid now.:wavey:

[Redway]

But, yeah, Mock, when that attitude runs unchecked you look at the world through insuring eyelids and have an inherent distrust and cynicism towards most people (even if you still see the good in them), because you have no reason to do anything else after everything you’ve been through. Some people are born that way but for others it’s acquired through negative experiences.

That’s why people like Piers Morgan and in general all the clapped blabbermouths of this world are an extra layer of repulsive. I’m all for healthy teas but because of that we’re talking anything from matcha turmeric to your bog-standard 2-sugared PG tips. Normal gossip. It ain’t going to be unhealthy tea that’s got 17 sugars in it and I ain’t getting involved with the corresponding poison from someone with a sickly-sweet smile of narcissistic charisma. It’s not good for you or anyone.

[Mystic Mock]

Yeah, Mock. It can’t just be a case of being paranoid when it ends up being true and people have been being talked about in the way that they were worried about. It’s like a self-fulfilling prophesy. Can represent serious mental illness in the extreme but can also be genuine reality that being cynical and jaded is just a natural follow-through result from and of. When you’ve been through the lows of smear-campaigning it can sometimes hardly make sense to be any other way, and it can last for years. You might just become more and more bitter (or at least cynical) as the years go on, because you’re used to people out there treating and talking about you badly.

From my personal experience, I have probably become more jaded just by observing how other people talk to each other sometimes.

[Redway]

From my personal experience, I have probably become more jaded just by observing how other people talk to each other sometimes.

Ah.

For some people it’s less about the to and more about the about.

[Redway]

Ken Gillman’s refusal to admit that tranylcypromine does indeed have some amphetamine-like effects. Like ya but come on. Let’s just be honest.

[Mystic Mock]

The commentary on TNT Sports during the Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich game tonight.

It sounded like I was listening to a bunch of 5 year olds, it was pathetic to watch.

And I meant to moan about this yesterday, but I forgot.:laugh:

But it's about Sky Sports being about everything but Sport nowadays.

- Racism - Tick
- Homophobia - Tick
- Misogyny - Tick
- Mental Health - Tick
- Head injuries - Tick
- Fatherhood in Football - Tick
- Religion - Tick
- 5% to actual Football matches - Tick

Good luck if you're a fan of a Sport that isn't Football on Sky Sports News.

[Redway]

Spotify playlists playing everything but the song you downloaded first. Man just wants Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful, not a million-and-one side-tracks.

[Ammi]

Spotify playlists playing everything but the song you downloaded first. Man just wants Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful, not a million-and-one side-tracks.

…for you…

eAfyFTzZDMM

[Redway]

…for you…

eAfyFTzZDMM

:love:

[Zizu]

…for you…

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Loved the song and the video


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[Mystic Mock]

The commentary on TNT Sports during the Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich game tonight.

It sounded like I was listening to a bunch of 5 year olds, it was pathetic to watch.

And I meant to moan about this yesterday, but I forgot.:laugh:

But it's about Sky Sports being about everything but Sport nowadays.

- Racism - Tick
- Homophobia - Tick
- Misogyny - Tick
- Mental Health - Tick
- Head injuries - Tick
- Fatherhood in Football - Tick
- Religion - Tick
- 5% to actual Football matches - Tick

Good luck if you're a fan of a Sport that isn't Football on Sky Sports News.

TNT Sports have got one now, when I'm just wanting to watch Villa get humiliated in Greece.

Teaching Sign Language - Tick

There's a time and place for segments like that, and it's not in the anticipation of a Football match.

[Mystic Mock]

Loved the song and the video


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I don't know about the video part.:laugh:

But the song has a very good message behind it imo.

[Redway]

People making assumptions about you when they actually don’t know a thing about you. Literally not a single thing. Talking as if they know you when they certainly don’t.

But knowing that these people have very-much moved on in their lives so you can’t front it out with them and call them out for having a demoralising effect on you for a minute. Because you probably ain’t never gonna come face-to-face with them ever-again. Meanwhile, there are people you be missing who helped raise you out of a funk and believed in you but you’ll probably never see them again, either.

Argh. Life, ey?

[Redway]

Certain pubs whacking out the same old ’80s pop tunes. They might be alright but there are better uses of a Sky license.

[Redway]

Also. “I don’t see myself as inherently feminine because I don’t like the colour pink.”

Pink used to be a masculine colour for a minute until about 100 years ago. A lot of these things have no inherent gender identity whatsoever. Just the ones the society of the time ascribes to them. But it ain’t that deep, honey. Like what you like.

[Mystic Mock]

Also. “I don’t see myself as inherently feminine because I don’t like the colour pink.”

Pink used to be a masculine colour for a minute until about 100 years ago. A lot of these things have no inherent gender identity whatsoever. Just the ones the society of the time ascribes to them. But it ain’t that deep, honey. Like what you like.

Isn't this too much common sense though, Redway?

People like to be daft.:joker:

[Redway]

People who can’t accept a happily-married couple because one of them’s your ex. The jealousy is ugly and just old news that no-one cares about anymore unless you were truly that wronged. Let it go.

Isn't this too much common sense though, Redway?

People like to be daft.:joker:

Yep.

[Redway]

Sugar-tins filled with bits that, like, so ain’t sugar. Nah, nah. I don’t need a sweet cuppa that bad.

[Zizu]

Sugar-tins filled with bits that, like, so ain’t sugar. Nah, nah. I don’t need a sweet cuppa that bad.


So true !!

I get every little bit out even if its not our house !!


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[Redway]

The fact that apples as a fruit unto themselves tend to leave me feeling nauseous these days. Shame as it used to be my favourite fruit.

[Zizu]

The fact that apples as a fruit unto themselves tend to leave me feeling nauseous these days. Shame as it used to be my favourite fruit.


Why ??


I did a blind taste test on 5 types of apples and decided that Royal Gala are the sweetest


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[Redway]

Why ??


I did a blind taste test on 5 types of apples and decided that Royal Gala are the sweetest


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I don’t know. Maybe it’s God’s way of telling me to slow down with the old apple.

[Gusto Brunt]

People in London in the media who say every day, I hope you're enjoying the lovely sunny weather - 27c.

Err, open your eyes. Look around the country. We don't all experience hot weather like that.

It was 13c and partially cloudy yesterday where I live.

So selfish.:fist:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Junkies

[Mystic Mock]

People in London in the media who say every day, I hope you're enjoying the lovely sunny weather - 27c.

Err, open your eyes. Look around the country. We don't all experience hot weather like that.

It was 13c and partially cloudy yesterday where I live.

So selfish.:fist:

It's been boiling where I live.:laugh:

[Redway]

Hypocrisy. Tired assumptions.

[Redway]

People who compare only the good things of one person’s past to the supposed negatives of their current existence to prove a narrative (I’m talking generally). No stretch in time is ever perfect. There are good and bad elements to a person’s existence at pretty-much every point in time. The fact that you’re not aware/weren’t aware, if it really is a case of simple lack of knowledge, doesn’t mean they didn’t/don’t exist. We don’t always know people as well or at least as fully as we like to think we do.

[Redway]

OneDrive. It’s so useless and doesn’t help with anything.

[Redway]

People admitting to needing Grammarly. Why can’t your grammar and punctuation naturally be faultless? (That’s the ideal.)

Anyway. It gives people like me a job. But even at that AI is taking over a lot of writing and editing jobs. I hope Chat GPT-dem are happy. In 10 years’ time even subtitlers might not even be needed.

[Redway]

People thinking they know the whole story about a sitiation while they at best know half and none of the sympathetic details, conveniently.

[Redway]

People who talk about men and women as a conglomerate. ‘Men are this,’ women are that.’ Contradictory tropes can be made either way and people are people either way. Talk about people, not people in terms of their binary (yeah, binary) distinction.

People who can’t align themselves with basic first-wave feminism should not be getting married anyhow.

[Zizu]

Cyclists riding or mounting the pavement !!

Aghhhh

A guy riding the pavement.. coming towards me today .. I was calculating which side to move to when he seemed to slow down and career into a lampost ( drink / drugz/ both ) It sounds funny but that could have been me !!


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[Mystic Mock]

People who talk about men and women as a conglomerate. ‘Men are this,’ women are that.’ Contradictory tropes can be made either way and people are people either way. Talk about people, not people in terms of their binary (yeah, binary) distinction.

People who can’t align themselves with basic first-wave feminism should not be getting married anyhow.

Speaking of someone like that actually getting married.

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