Things you hate III

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Otter, Dec 11, 2015.

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  1. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    No it really isn’t.
    I’m almost always permanently hot.
    Going outside in shorts and a T-shirt or having windows open in this kind of weather is a blessed relief
     
  2. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Feel free to come here in shorts and t-shirt, I could use a laugh. ;)
     
  3. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Are you a menopausal woman?!
     
  4. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    While I'm perusing this thread, I might as well throw in my two pennies worth -
    Being the parent of a 15 year old daughter. Stress, stress, and more stress.....
    To those younger forumites who are thinking that having babies/toddlers is hard - trust me - make the most of it and make the most of your little ones fundamentally wanting to please you.
     
  5. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    I have no personal experience, but everyone I know who has had teenagers says teenage girls are far, far worse to deal with than teenage boys. You have my sympathy - I remember what my sister was like!
     
  6. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    Deadline Day when we're not involved in any signings.
     
  7. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    I have already stated to my wife that when my daughter turns 13 I'm off to live in the shed until she's 20
     
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  8. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    if I was female and went through the menopause I think I genuinely would have to move to the arctic circle to be comfortable.
     
  9. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Need specifics and as much advice as possible. Daughter has just turned 11 prodromal teenage symptoms already appearing.
     
  10. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Honestly I was not the easiest teenager myself and gave my mum, who was on her own, the run around. I wish she was still around today to see karma biting me in the behind. That said, most of my wildest behaviour was when I was 16-18 and in the sixth form - not when I had literally only just turned 15. Plus there was no social media and mobile phones when I was 15 (yes, I'm that ancient).
     
  11. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    You may be lucky, Cthulhu. My friends and I all broadly agree on how we approach parenting and yet there is an enormous disparity on how our daughters are going through the minefield of "teenagedom". And my younger daughter, who turns 13 this year, is entirely different to her older sister. The biggest thing I would advise you to do is to keep an eye on social media. The problem we are facing is that the 15 year old's friendship group now stretches way beyond her own school and our immediate area, thanks to Instagram & Snapchat. "Friends of friends" (i.e."strangers" in my book) are apparently all fair game to befriend and talk to on these platforms; then they all start to meet up and a whole can of worms opens....
    Anyone who has been through this care to share when we are likely to come through the other side?
     
  12. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

  13. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Headlines about "snow bombs"; children looking forward to a "snow day" tomorrow; emails from school about "snow protocol"; then..........no snow
     
  14. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    I've said it before and I'll say it again... Adult scooters. Why not go the whole way and wear a nappy and a romper suit you infantilised attention seekers.
     
  15. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    There should me a double like button for this.

    I’d add the ‘adult’ that skateboards down in the middle of Box Lane at 7am.
     
  16. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Our owners. Selling our best player for £40m, bringing in millions more in loan fees, sending 3 of our players to bolster their ailing Italian project and then doing absolutely sweet FA for Watford.

    ******* joke.
     
  17. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    To be fair, I walk about 15 minutes from Moorgate to my office (saves changing at KC for Northern Line, which I hate) and these hipsters on scooters whip past me at pace. They're probably saving a bit of time, whilst looking like they're on their way to scrump apples.
     
  18. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Clothesline them or have a pocket of gravel handy so you can scatter it infront of them.

    I used to walk from Moorgate down to bank about 5 years ago, thankfully not since scooters and hipster became a thing and I can't imagine what it would be like with those morons.
     
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  19. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Mrs Diamond just put a load of ginger biscuits in the biscuit barrel. Give me strength!
     
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  20. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    I have a friend who spreads butter on Ginger biscuits before eating them. That's just plain weird.
     
  21. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Ginger in anything sweet is just wrong, full stop.
     
  22. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    When you tempt fate and your words come back to haunt you.....
     
  23. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    You can have the lot that is covering our six full and two mini outside courts if you like?
     
  24. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    See my subsequent post - we have it. Came down in bucket loads just before the school run, which was hairy to say the least. Let's just say the red wine was opened early this evening....
     
  25. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    In the same vein, people who ride BMX bikes beyond the age of 16. Or skateboards.

    Just... grow up.
     
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  26. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    When you have an incredibly complex project to cater for at work, you know it's going to be a ballache, so get exact specifications and requirements in advance of starting the work and then when presenting the results that were asked for, the boss says "Can you just change this thing and add that thing?"

    No I can't just do that. There's no just about it. I can do it, but will have to spend hours redoing the whole project from the start again. That was the whole point of me getting you to clarify exactly what you wanted before I started. What other piece of work you've asked me to do should I drop just like that because of your inability to know what you want.
    There's 3 viables with 3 options, that's 27 different outcomes.
    Now you want to vary 2 more which have another 3 variables. All in all that's 162 quotes you're asking for. Not counting the fact that by trial and error I had to come up with the target figure to start with which has also now changed.
     
  27. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Zips.

    Why do they always fail on otherwise perfectly serviceable clothing.
     
  28. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

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    hornmeister Tired

  30. nascot

    nascot First Team

    UPS. Waited all day for a delivery only to receive an email at 5pm saying the address is wrong. No it ******* isn't, your lazy ******* driver couldn't be bothered to deliver it.
     
  31. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    When your walking towards the same place As somebody walking much slower than you but from different directions. They can see you’re walking much faster but they’re ever so slightly ahead of you, rather than letting you go they walk in front of you and you’re left to walk awkwardly behind them while they dawdle along, fiddling with their bag, putting stuff in their pockets etc. It happened to me yesterday and it was infuriating. In the end I had to say “excuse me mate” The look he gave me was as if I’d asked to have sex with his mum.

    I basically hate people that are completely oblivious to the fact that they’re not the only people in the world.
     
  32. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    95% of things which wind us up are this. The people who just occupy space, either on their bike, in their car or their person, inconveniencing others and never questioning their right to do so.
     
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  33. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    To save my sanity (and reduce my blood pressure) I've been using a new strategy to deal with this (especially with my kids in the car) - we make sure the "offending driver" gets the message by loudly celebrating, cheering and clapping at their "excellent" driving skills...it appears to infuriate them more than giving them the "usual" hand signals.
     
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  34. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    So over the last few weeks the completely over hyped series "Cleaning Up" has been on in our household. I usually sit there with the laptop out so I don't have to take much notice of it but last night the utter sh*tness of it finally got to me, (despite my best attempts at youtube videos), and I flounced out with a few choice words towards Mrs Diamonds choice of show. How do people watch this utter tripe week after week? There aren't enough expletives in the English language to describe it.
     
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  35. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    So for the third time this week Mrs Diamond gets it in the neck. "Join the local community facebook page and you'll keep up to date with local goings on" she said. F*ck me, this lot make Mumsnet seem like Stephen Hawkins for intelligence.
    The latest post is about a C Section that went wrong due to an unqualified doctor at Watford General with Jackie's headline exclaiming "appaling!!"

    Lorraine says "Going into Tesco’s Rickmansworth this evening was just shocking .. you would think they were closing down and just not restocking .. fruit, vegetables , salad items , just bare ... why can’t another supermarket chain take it over and actually make it somewhere worth a visit !! So frustrating .."

    Sara chips in with "Watch out for the film crew down by prime grill. Holding up everyone. White van used to slow traffic down to 10 miles an hour all the way from grove back roads!! They can direct a bloody film but not traffic. No attempt to. Was crazy!"

    No attempt to what Sara?

    Finally Louise says "Burlary in Harefield Road tonight ☹ (not our house) police were on the case, very nice they were too."
     
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