Ah ..

I’ve also got a few smart gadgets spread around now .. so I can just instruct Google , Siri or Alexa to play whatever station I want .. TalkSport or GB news or whatever ..

I bought an Echo Dot for £3 and an amazing Apple HomePod for £5 at the local car boot sale


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Our lenient sentencing

This guy will be out on no time at all ..

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I’m very archaic when it comes to voice-to-interpretation technology, despite the fact that I used to be a subtitler (but even then I was manually transcribing/plugging out subtitle-text; I didn’t get a chance to be trained with oral transcription, still). So I’m not even into all that Alexa/ask Siri stuff. I’d rather just use my hands to manoeuvre these things.

Edit: ignore that wink-emoji. It just popped up and it’s not even letting me get rid.

But even at that (going back to this) I can’t imagine arista being that young. I’m sure he’s in his 40s by now.

I’m turning this into an out-and-out “pet peeves” thread (it doesn’t have to be with the public per-se).

The guy who’s been known for doing voice-overs on shows like Come Dine with Me and How Clean is Your House? can be a bit much sometimes, a little irritating. He’s actually rude.

Ok then, just a general peeve if you like. Those poxy Sunlife adverts. The woman goes round the blokes house for some mundane reason or another, naturally the first thing they always talk about is life insurance, and she tells him she's just got covered and he says "oh congratulations" as if it's some sort of bloody fortunate win or something. Hate those ones.

Then one about funerals, and the young bloke looks at a photo of some dead bloke and says "ah he was a nice bloke i bet the funeral was expensive, how much do they cost nowadays" because of course we always talk and think like that. Then the mum says how cheap the stupid company they're promoting are, and says she's covered, and he thanks her. Utter sh!te..

People morning about other people using cliches. “At the end of the day” is a very apt saying in the contexts that people use it in. Don’t know what everyone’s problem is with it.

I really hate all these Diesel Car compensation adverts. .. one is by My Diesel ..
They claim to have got compensation for over a million people ( which I don’t believe) .. then they that THOUSANDS of new claimants use their service EACH DAY ..

I’m guessing they don’t have thousands of legal staff on their payroll


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The fact that it’s taken me this long to stumble across CBD coffee, one that’s already been activated with a fat (coconut oil) at that. Holland and Barrett is blessed.

Can you taste the coconut ?


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Pet peeve of the day is perma banned members hanging around like a bad smell and appearing on the whose online list. Get the message, you're not welcome!

Not really but whether you can taste it or you can’t, there’s no point drinking CBD tea without some sort of fat in it (that’s what gets the CBD activated). I usually use goose fat but luckily this this bag of coffee’s already been activated with coconut oil (as inconspicuous as the taste of it is).

1. People of colour’s existence being considered woke-ism (The Sun has a lot of trash to answer for.

2. Again, the whole thing of people getting too close when they’re in the aisle or queue with you and not acting on the cue to give you space until you move back so ironically they can have space.

3. There’s a big issue with black-on-black crime in London and the States (no doubt) but in places like Toronto, Liverpool, Manchester and just large chunks of the world generally the most run-down, rough areas are white ones and this isn’t always acknowledged. Toxteth, Liverpool (for example) has had a bit of a rep since the ’80s riots and there are no-doubt lions who you might grow up around if you live there when you’re younger but that’s just one side to Tocky. It’s also a staple ethnic hub that has one of those salt-of-the-Earth communities and some very nice/semi middle-class enclaves tucked away from wherever crime’s supposed to be rampant in Liverpool 8. Kirkdale, Anfield, Norris Green, Speke, Huyton and all those other areas which are traditionally known for being rampant with crime (including racist murders) and gangs get a free pass by a lot of people because they’re white-majority areas. And black inherently means dangerous to people who use Toxteth as an example of a rough area in Liverpool despite the fact that it’s far from the overall worst. To every criminal road-man of colour are 3 or 4 white chavs/hooligans/knife-holders but no-one seems to remember that when they want to pander to bias they’re unlikely to admit they have.

4. Hyperhidrosis. Being an unrelenting sweater even after two showers a day really takes the piss. I’m seeing a doctor about this and something else next week so hopefully we can put an end to it.

People who are fidgety and can’t just leave their faces alone. If it’s not rubbing their nose to sniff it’s to stroke one side of their cheek or keep messing with their hair.

The annual Fishermania program drives me bonkers … 25 anglers compete for a £50,000 top prize ( the others get nowt as I recall)

Anyways they show what they’ve caught and weigh them every 30 minutes but they don’t tell you what the fish are .. they quite often zoom in but the presenters just say ‘he’s got some very nice fish in there ‘ or “ that’s a whopper” … they just concentrate on the individual weights rather than educating people or identifying the different types of fish

Agghhhh !!!


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I can’t think of anything worse than a balaclava in blistering temps !!

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For me I guess many roads keep leading back to inconsiderate strangers getting too close and not respecting your personal space.

People who take their kids to the supermarket, let them off the lead and let them run wild. Love that... Really love it.

If you can’t take a kid to the shop without having to put them on a leash and treat them like a two-legged dog, they probably have unchecked ADHD (because that goes way beyond the normal extraverted exuberance of childhood; IMO, anyway). You want to do something about that if that’s the way your kids are but if you can’t control them in the shops, leave them at home with a baby-sitter.

The fact that there’s always an absurd amount of personal information scattered all across your prescription boxes and bags. The pharmacy surely only needs to print the label once but they don’t and that makes it awkward when it’s time to dispose of the empty boxes and bags. Short of burning them there’s nothing you can do besides shred them to smithereens just to make sure your confidential information stays that way as much as it can. I don’t need 5 labels with my name and address on the same package. It just makes it really awkward.

People who call after half 11 at night when it’s not truly urgent, we’re not planning a night out or we’re not tight mates wanting an intimate 2 a.m. call on a Saturday morning. It’s alright on a Friday/Saturday night but on a weeknight when there’s nothing important to say, we’re not close or you don’t need help? Have you no sense of basic time propriety?

Maybe it’s just me.

It's not just you... if someone calls me after 9pm they'd better be dying.

I feel the same way about non-important calls on a Monday morning. I’m not the sort of person who particularly likes talking on the phone anyway (unless I’m in the mood and even then there’s usually some alcohol involved) but there’s enough fresh hell awaiting you at the start of a long week without being bugged by someone about something that can hold. So I just try to leave people alone to some extent on Monday. The day’s bad enough as it is. Don’t want to vex or stress anyone further first thing on one of the worst days of the week. Knowing you’re in for it makes the second-half-of-Sunday blues even worse.

People who whinge, moan and grumble constantly.

Running into old customers who comment that they "haven't seen me in the shop for a while". I haven't worked there for over four years!

I must’ve mentioned this before but people with bad manners really irk me. It takes less muscles to smile than to frown so when someone keeps the door open for you or gives you moving space (often because you’re in their way in the first place), why wouldn’t you at least cordially acknowledge it?

My father in law wouldn't hold a door open for a man because he thought it would make him seem gay. My wife pointed out that he was being sexist/discriminatory ... so now he pointedly doesn't hold doors open for anyone :facepalm:. He's an ... err ... interesting fellow.

You keep the door open for someone if they’re already close enough to it (or have mobility issues or something and might need a bit of help) because it’s the normal, polite thing to do, not because you’re trying to hit on a stranger. This whole insecurity about sexuality affects the way some guys even eat bananas (not that I personally like bananas per-se but that’s different and my own peculiarity). And it’s just bloody ridiculous.

The amount of misogyny on Come Dine With Me (of all shows) is very jarring, too. I’m very anti-racism/misogyny so all those digs at women at the dinner table is something else. At this point I don’t even mind the sarcastic narrator’s cheeky jibes so much anymore. At least they’re indiscriminate.

Public pet peeves
 

I hate opening the butter to find bits in it from toast or whatever
Alternatively finding bits of butter in the jam jar !!

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Mhm-hm. We’ve been through this.

That's very valid though because bread crumbs getting into butter or preserves can make them go mouldy :fist:

Artificial intelligence. Stealing too many jobs.

1. Truly snotty people who have the ump with you for no reason. Ditto (I’m speaking on behalf of the masses with this one) for being blocked by the most random people on social media when there’s no known bad blood to speak of. I understand leaving follow/friend-requests hanging if it’s someone who you’re not really sure you want them to have access to that side of your life (at least not yet) but what I don’t understand is taking it to the next level and actively blocking people who really haven’t done anything bad to you and aren’t known to be creepy-arse stalkers. I only do that to people I actually have a problem with/strongly dislike and would rather forget ever existed in my life. Otherwise what did they ever actually do to you? Where’s the animosity coming from?

2. Hating on people just for being quiet and minding their own business. Again, what did they ever actually do to you for you to be rolling your eyes at the mere sight of them? Are we really that allergic to calm people?

It takes more muscles to frown than to smile so it’s better to just take people in a somewhat positive light and trust that your friends really do have your back (half the time they love you more than you know) rather than looking for who to hate on when you don’t need to. Reserve that hate for people who have actually done you dirty or truly that incompatible with and disagreeable to you. No-one’s perfect but if you know you’ve got good friends you shouldn’t be too worried about them low-key being jealous backstabbers or quietly trying to scheme against you. It pays to treat people how you’d like to be treated unless they’re really not good for you and hold your friends tight. Real ones (not foul gossips who talk smack on you behind your back, don’t actually care nothing about you and only hit you up when they need weed or money) who you can stay friends with for over 10/15 years are irreplaceable, flawed (as we all are) or not. You don’t want to be too paranoid about who’s who, whether you know them or not. Everyone has at least some good in them. All you need is decent discernment, not misplaced cynicism. You’re not going to be nonchalantly cutting off quality friends who’ve had your back for years unless you’re that daft. Same goes for cutting off actual blood because of £15 or whatever that they had to pay back a day later than they promised. Life happens on either side but in life you need people you can count on to endure life with you, not people who’ll switch on you just like that just because they can. Unless the person has borderline personality disorder or something, there’s never a good reason to blow hot and cold with people that much (especially over trivialities that don’t truly matter), and whoever’s like that for whatever reason needs to look inward and do a bit of self-work anyway. People who you say you truly like/love deserve loyalty.

3. The way the Dingles on Emmerdale galavant all over the place doing incest with each-other (almost cringier than Joey/Lauren off EastEnders in 2012) and getting random women pregnant left, right and centre but that’s another thing altogether. I just hope Charity doesn’t go there too deep with Liam. Chloe will be dead soon enough (thank God).

People whose own isn’t to even let you know that they’re coming but to expect you to be at the door waiting for them and ready to open up anyway (unless you’re virtually best friends).

Whole threads getting deleted instead of just the offending posts. Don’t turn my threads into a place to argue for pages, because then the whole thread gets sliced and some interesting contributions missed out on. Do it somewhere else.

Night Ubers cancelling and cancelling on you because they don’t deem your journey as long enough. That’s why it’s good to support other taxi firms at least occasionally. Like we all did until 7/8 years ago. Uber really isn’t all that.

People who burp a lot. In public.