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Post by Lobster on Jan 10, 2024 17:50:41 GMT
I've probably mentioned this before but my pet hate - USB chargers, leads, cables and anything else that connects one device to another or a power source. Every house is full of these bloody things, nobody can remember what they're for and you can never find the one you need.
All these things are is bits of wire that transfer power or data from one place to another. You should be able to buy two of them for a pound and use them on anything. Instead, big tech companies deliberately make all the sockets different shapes so you have to keep buying new ones.
Not wanting to politicise this, but the EU has ruled to standardise this by the end of this year, whereas we've accepted Apple's nonsense argument that it "stifles innovation". All it stifles is Apple's ability to make money from bits of non-biodegradable tat.
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Post by Curva Nord on Jan 10, 2024 20:13:20 GMT
Don't buy Apple, tbf it's only their phones, Laptops are USB C like Android phones.
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Post by Lobster on Jan 22, 2024 13:56:25 GMT
Crap and nonsensical advertising slogans, mostly on daytime TV.
"Putting the "sure" in travel insurance" - doesn't even work
"Currys PC World - it starts with you" - starts with C actually
"Only Sunny Loans come with the Sunny guarantee" - well, yeah, would be a bit weird if someone else's did
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Post by welshrover on Jan 22, 2024 14:34:30 GMT
People who can't seem to fathom out that in a battle between your recycling bins and a 35 mph wind there is only ever going to be one winner!
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Post by Moltisanti on Jan 23, 2024 15:22:17 GMT
“What would be your death row meal be”
Doubt I’d feel like eating when I’m about to die.
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Post by Lobster on Jan 23, 2024 16:55:27 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68066377I hate to have a go at emergency responders, but why are they constantly "reminding" people not to phone them with ridiculous problems? This is completely the wrong approach I think, and just gives airtime to idiots. Do they not realise anyone phoning 999 complaining that they've had too much kebab or can't find their false teeth is taking the piss? There was even a call released once of someone calling 999 because he could reach his remote control. Why are they trying to make emergency service misuse into a comedy show? Ordinary people don't need reminders not to do this. A mistake ordinary people do make is to call 999 over matters that are serious to them but not life or death situations, such as their car being stolen or just feeling unwell. A better campaign would be to remind people of the non-emergency services they can use. Nowhere in that article does it tell people what they actually should do if they find themselves in a serious but non-emergency situation.
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Post by Lobster on Jan 23, 2024 17:16:30 GMT
“What would be your death row meal be” Doubt I’d feel like eating when I’m about to die. Does seem a strange practice. Don't agree with the death penalty but also don't agree with the taxpayer paying for murderers to have some sort of treat. In Texas, it's been stopped since 2011 since one prisoner (a white supremacist who tied a black man to the back of his truck and dragged him to his death, and was completely unrepentant about it) ordered a huge and lavish last meal, only to say when it was given to him that he wasn't hungry. |
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Post by theshed1 on Jan 23, 2024 18:17:33 GMT
“What would be your death row meal be” Doubt I’d feel like eating when I’m about to die. Does seem a strange practice. Don't agree with the death penalty but also don't agree with the taxpayer paying for murderers to have some sort of treat. In Texas, it's been stopped since 2011 since one prisoner (a white supremacist who tied a black man to the back of his truck and dragged him to his death, and was completely unrepentant about it) ordered a huge and lavish last meal, only to say when it was given to him that he wasn't hungry. Difficult thing the Death Penalty to me it's appropriate to the likes of Brady and Hindley, Sutcliffe, Nielson, the West's etc but it has to bee 200% that the culprit is guilty as it is/was with the aforementioned |
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Post by Lobster on Jan 23, 2024 19:42:16 GMT
Does seem a strange practice. Don't agree with the death penalty but also don't agree with the taxpayer paying for murderers to have some sort of treat. In Texas, it's been stopped since 2011 since one prisoner (a white supremacist who tied a black man to the back of his truck and dragged him to his death, and was completely unrepentant about it) ordered a huge and lavish last meal, only to say when it was given to him that he wasn't hungry. Difficult thing the Death Penalty to me it's appropriate to the likes of Brady and Hindley, Sutcliffe, Nielson, the West's etc but it has to bee 200% that the culprit is guilty as it is/was with the aforementioned Where do you draw the line though? We're supposed to be certain before anyone is found guilty. Also, how many would confess to crimes if they knew they would be executed? |
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Post by theshed1 on Jan 23, 2024 20:39:49 GMT
Difficult thing the Death Penalty to me it's appropriate to the likes of Brady and Hindley, Sutcliffe, Nielson, the West's etc but it has to bee 200% that the culprit is guilty as it is/was with the aforementioned Where do you draw the line though? We're supposed to be certain before anyone is found guilty. Also, how many would confess to crimes if they knew they would be executed? Thats the problem with it you have to be absolutely certain, there have been too many people wrongly hanged but it galls me when the people I've mentioned have a life of comparative luxury at the taxpayers expense whilst ex-servicemen/women, pensioners etc struggle to survive |
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Post by Anders on Feb 2, 2024 16:51:14 GMT
The use of the word 'Toxic'. People use it to describe pretty much anything and everything bad or negative these days. Honestly want to throw a thesaurus at people.
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Post by welshrover on Feb 2, 2024 19:24:57 GMT
I get irritated by, well you know, I can't say it on here for fear of well you know, but I am sure you know but you can't say it either because of well, you know.
That's it really, can't say anymore.
If I could say it on here I would say I can't get my head around, well, you know.
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Post by Lobster on Feb 3, 2024 11:20:56 GMT
Bands that get arsey about the genre they're put into.
If you don't want to be called a "punk band", stop making fast-paced music with four chords and angry lyrics. Once you've written your music and put it out there, it's for listeners to decide what it sounds like.
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Post by Lobster on Feb 6, 2024 17:16:15 GMT
Self-service checkouts. I had kind of made peace with them, but I've noticed shops are stepping it up and getting staff looking over your shoulder, putting gates by them so someone has to swipe you out and checking results. It's like they're shocked that if you get customers to scan their shopping rather than trained staff, some stuff won't get scanned correctly, both accidentally and deliberately.
If you're not going to pay staff, I resent that you don't trust me. If you want me to do it myself, maybe you should pay me for it? I'll have staff discount as well actually!
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Post by Moltisanti on Feb 6, 2024 17:20:08 GMT
Self-service checkouts. I had kind of made peace with them, but I've noticed shops are stepping it up and getting staff looking over your shoulder, putting gates by them so someone has to swipe you out and checking results. It's like they're shocked that if you get customers to scan their shopping rather than trained staff, some stuff won't get scanned correctly, both accidentally and deliberately. If you're not going to pay staff, I resent that you don't trust me. If you want me to do it myself, maybe you should pay me for it? I'll have staff discount as well actually! Completely agree. I’ve stopped using them for the reasons you’ve stated. Decided I’m no longer doing someone else’s job for them. |
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Post by theshed1 on Feb 6, 2024 17:36:02 GMT
Self-service checkouts. I had kind of made peace with them, but I've noticed shops are stepping it up and getting staff looking over your shoulder, putting gates by them so someone has to swipe you out and checking results. It's like they're shocked that if you get customers to scan their shopping rather than trained staff, some stuff won't get scanned correctly, both accidentally and deliberately. If you're not going to pay staff, I resent that you don't trust me. If you want me to do it myself, maybe you should pay me for it? I'll have staff discount as well actually! Completely agree. I’ve stopped using them for the reasons you’ve stated. Decided I’m no longer doing someone else’s job for them. and for nothing |
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Post by Lobster on Feb 14, 2024 15:04:29 GMT
The Apprentice. Why is the TV licence payer funding a recruitment drive for Alan Sugar? And why is he still relevant, what does he even do any more other than post senile drivel on Twitter?
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Post by welshrover on Feb 20, 2024 0:08:36 GMT
The Apprentice. Why is the TV licence payer funding a recruitment drive for Alan Sugar? And why is he still relevant, what does he even do any more other than post senile drivel on Twitter? To be fair I had one of his Princesound Turntables back in the seventies and it was a cracking sound for a budget turntable. Some twat put a hammer through it during a party!!! Obviously didn't like the music! |
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Post by tooth on Feb 20, 2024 17:51:31 GMT
The Apprentice. Why is the TV licence payer funding a recruitment drive for Alan Sugar? And why is he still relevant, what does he even do any more other than post senile drivel on Twitter? agreed especially that sour faced boot Karen Brady too all as thick as pigshit |
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Post by Lobster on May 20, 2024 17:09:10 GMT
Politicians claiming they're putting "record spending" into something.
With inflation and population growth, "record spending" is the very minimum you need just to sustain a service, it doesn't mean it's enough. They should be challenged every time they say this.
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Post by tooth on May 28, 2024 11:42:17 GMT
People that talk at checkouts after they have bought there stuff if there's a big queue it's annoying
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Post by 54321 on May 28, 2024 12:01:14 GMT
Men who were red trouers very weird!!
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Post by welshrover on May 28, 2024 22:56:17 GMT
Men who were red trouers very weird!! Men that once were trousers is indeed weird. |
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Post by 54321 on May 29, 2024 11:22:33 GMT
HaHa well spotted Mr Rover
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Post by yoshimitsu on May 29, 2024 21:41:07 GMT
Or mustard yellow corduroy. Also referred to as rich man yellow as the only people I see wearing it are clearly rolling in cash.
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Post by keysersoze on Jun 4, 2024 12:58:41 GMT
Private number plates. Have you honestly got nothing better to spend your money on than what's essentially a bar code for your car?! Attention seeking pretentiousness!
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Post by Lobster on Jun 5, 2024 13:49:32 GMT
Private number plates. Have you honestly got nothing better to spend your money on than what's essentially a bar code for your car?! Attention seeking pretentiousness! Agree. They have a penis extension vibe about them to me, bought by usually annoying people trying to compensate for themselves. Most of them look rubbish as well. I get how the first person called Billy to have B1LLY might have been quite pleased with it, but most of them you look at and think "what's that, you're happy with it are you?" |
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Post by ivawhopper on Jun 6, 2024 18:35:10 GMT
Dermatitis, that’s a minor irritation.
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Post by Eddie Gray's left foot on Jul 8, 2024 18:55:07 GMT
Women at checkouts. They wait until their shopping has has been checked through and then go searching in their handbags for their purse.
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Post by deesideblue1 on Jul 8, 2024 19:16:18 GMT
Women at checkouts. They wait until their shopping has has been checked through and then go searching in their handbags for their purse. Happy you got that off your chest? Dirty sexist pig. |
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