Things you hate III

Trying to stop kids using them in lessons, even 6th formers, is like Canute trying to stop the tide. You want a crap grade? Just carry on using your phones...

 

"I'm England til I die" chants.

I mean, ok I guess at club level people are more fickle and sometimes change alleigencies, but your national team? Why would you sing this song?

It's as useful as people as regularly sharing "like this picture if you're against animal cruelty'. Well I'm clearly against animal cruelty but do I really need to reinforce and prove this by liking your bloody picture?

Along side this is the guy who, for some reason I guess only known to him and his mates, was slapping his forehead repeatedly quite hard to the beat of a song in Malloy's. I mean, you had 2 hands. Clap the other one, not your bloody forehead.

Odd.

 

Watford sack Sliva. Chelsea announce that Conte is set to depart. They sacked him FFS. This.

 

Big Graham Taylor?!

 

Bi Gay and Trans

 

I’m amazed!

But I guess he grew up in a more repressed age.

 

Says "sacked" on the BBC website.

 

I remember when a woman`s place was barefoot and pregnant.

 

Still happening.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/10/woma...foot-hasnt-worn-shoes-in-three-years-7454374/

 

Those self service machines in McDonald’s.

I don’t really eat McDonald’s but I’ve just been on a stag in Lisbon and had the misfortune of eating there twice, one in town and one at the airport.

People take an age to order as they dither around trying to navigate the screen, at the end ifyou are paying by cash you have to select to pay at the till anyway, so that’s three separate long queues to finally get your food. I wasn’t paying by cash, but the whole concept for those who are just seems bonkers.

The receipts were not printing at the machines in the airport, so it was absolute chaos as people paid and then didn’t take note of their order number so had no idea which was theirs, slowing it down even more.

Basically McDonalds is meant to at the very least be fast food, but these machines mean it’s is the opposite and you have to wait at least 30 minutes for your food. I’m sure they save a few quid on staff, but being able to tell your order to a person who immediately knows what buttons to press, takes your money and then gives you your order is infinitely quicker.

 

Reducing the amount of actual human interaction yet further. Ultimately it'll be a robot actually handing you your food.

If you haven't already, you should try to watch X-files series 11 episode 7 - Rm9sbG93ZXJz. All about automation and AI (and what could go wrong).

A fun episode and totally standalone to watch if you're not up to X-files speed.

 

When there's a single hand drier in the bog, the person using it knows you've finished washing your hands, (I took longer than normal waiting for him to finish drying), yet still carries on until their hands are completely dry, and then some. Same people who take 5 minutes washing their cup in the only sink in the tea room.

Virgins the lot of them!

 

Would improve annual household income by £500+ if I could convince my wife to follow her example.

 

The way some people behave at baggage carousels. You take a spot with plenty of space around you, somebody then comes and stands right in front of you and expects you to move out of the way because their bag is coming. Just stand the other side of me and wait the extra 0.5 seconds for your case to come to you.

 

What about the £1000 additional food bill?

 

and why do people crowd the side of the belt where the luggage comes out, does it really hurtif it takes an extra 30 secs to come round to you or are they so paranoid someone is going to claim your bag before it comes round to you

 

Pavements.

My mother can't walk any real distance so needs a wheelchair and someone to push her.

I'd never paid much attention to the state of paths but now I'm having to push a chubby old lady around it feels like I'm using a pneumatic drill every time I take her out because of all the cracks, holes, ragged edges where parts have been 'fixed', debris and general state of disrepair.

It may sound like a middle class moan but one of the rubber wheels has come off when getting trapped in a hole. My wrist was damaged when, again, a wheel caught & twisted because of a hole and - yes - because of a small cracked hole, the chair was thrown sideways and my knuckles scraped along a brick wall.

I contacted the councillor for my area where these instances took place and one of the areas has been resurfaced but the other two will have to wait.
Wages apparently. Or budget concerns. Something or another anyway.

Pavements. Tsk!

 

"Lisbon"? As in "Lisbon, Portugal"? As in "Portugal - one of the world's greatest cuisines?" You farkin' pleb.

 

A few years back I was in Prague with a group of 9 others. The first night we wandered from restaurant to restaurant peering at the menu and there was always 1 person who said "not for me", and on it went. In these instances you always end up eating at the lowest common denominator.
The next 2 nights the places were booked so the "moaners" had no choice but to join us or find their own "fast food" place.

Even in a small town in Japan, (who's food is my absolute favorite), one of our work group insisted on finding a pizza place. In that case I wasn't going to bend so he ended up eating with us instead and loved it, (w***er).

 

Throwing beer in the air when your team scores. It's the most unspontaneous, engineered act of celebration ever and it's dirty and pointless.

I feel your pain. I was in Singapore in a food court type place with a colleague. I was surrounded by Singapore, Malay, Chinese, Indian and Japanese flavours, with fusions thereof. I didn't know where to begin, but my colleague gagged, wilted and nearly wept at me as he told me "I can't face this foreign food. I need a sandwich."

Similarly in Mexico with mates, they considered trying local food to be a risk and that the safest bet for consistently OK grub, not just in Mexico, but universally, was to just stick to McDonalds.

These people are all successful people by most yardsticks, but would rather eat a plasticky bun full of reclaimed meat than try the flavours of the world

 

I had a maccyds in Portugal once. Was only for a mid-sunbathing lunchtime break and you can order beer in theirs which was luuuverly!

 

I know, guilty as charged. When you’re on stag with 15 blokes you don’t tend to sit down for Michelin stared dining though. It’s generally a case of opting to line your stomach after your 10th beer before the following 10 beers.

 

OMG Singapore, we had the best, (by a long way), business lunches I've ever tasted. In fact the mornings couldn't go fast enough for me. One night I was let out on my own and found a tiny family run place, the only downside of which was that they weren't allowed to sell alcohol. I had a barley water drink. To this day I've never found a non-alcoholic drink that comes close to that beauty.

Anyway, back to things we hate!

 

On my flight to Perth in '05 we stopped in Singapore but only for an hour so it sounds like I've missed out!

 

You did. Great place.

 

I love Singapore. the veritable melting pot of South, East Asian and British Colonial influence. However, to get it back on track with the thread topic, I hate Durian, which I tried there. Smells like someone with smelly feet, rubbed soiled nappies from three week old garbage on them and tastes even worse.

 

I agree. Durian Durian is well past its best.

 

Yeah Durian is horrrid. I bought some Durian flavoured sweets back from Thailand for work people once just for a laugh, the general consensus was that they tasted like kn0b cheese.

 

I Also did this. They were like garlic farts

 

Time. The relentless, unyielding passing of time.

How on earth can Italia 90 have been 28 years ago??

Went to my son's leavers' performance last night as he finishes year 4 this week and is going to join his older sister at Middle School (weird 3 tier system in LB). That's both of them finished 5 years at that school and we'll probably never set foot in there again... When they get older they will probably only have a handful of lasting memories from all that time too.

Time, you can just **** right off. Just when things are going well, you're going to come along and **** it all up you ****.

 

Ain't that the truth.

 

We had this in the 'Wood - I wonder why they stopped it? Well possibly all that valuable land that could be re-developed.

 

People that drive around with a box of tissues on the parcel shelf. I have no problem with the fact that you are a w@nker, there's just no need to advertise it!

 

What about something all club team fans sing, "We're the best team the World has ever seen". Bo**ocks are we.

 

Ever since that song first came out my immediate reaction has been: "What about Brazil 1970?"