[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.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by 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.

It's been boiling where I live.

[Redway]

Hypocrisy. Tired assumptions.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Junkies

[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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[Redway]

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

[Livia]

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

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Livia

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

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


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

Imagine reading a book with spoilers every few pages !!


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[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

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

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

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

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

[Niamh.]

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

[Mystic Mock]

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

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

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

[Redway]

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

[Redway]

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

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

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

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

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

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

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


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[Zizu]

Bloody huge subtitles on SKY !!!


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



Wtf


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[Mystic Mock]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Livia]

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

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Livia

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

Another example of slipping standards, I’m afraid !


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[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

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

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

[Zizu]

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

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


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[Livia]

Originally Posted by Zizu

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

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


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

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Livia

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

Such uplifting stuff as well ! Not !!


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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

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

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


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

1. To make the viewer feel depressed.

2. To divide audiences over Politics.

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

[Nicky91]

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