ATM machines asking you if you want your receipt/to see your balance when you literally selected the “cash only” (no balance, no receipt) option. If I wanted either I would’ve specified by now.

Wanting to settle into BBC news for a good few hours on your cosy off-days mid-week but having to contend with Nicky Campbell here, there and everywhere. I literally just want the news.

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I just flick from 501 to 503 to 512 then to 522 for news items


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I tend to watch most of these things on mobile now though. It’s not that common that I park myself in front of the telly anymore. I probably should because there’s more obvious variety and Sky+ Smart TVs are a big asset but I tend to just stream iPlayer whenever I want to watch anything on BBC.

So the point is I can’t just flick to 522.

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.