Things you hate III

On the subject of car radio stations. I get annoyed when they have guests on, but I have switched on after the initial introductions. They have a chat about their latest album or book, they even may sing a song or two in the studio, and then they leave, and the radio presenter never once repeats the guests name and I have to guess who it was, particularly if I liked the music and wanted to stream or buy it.

 

Do you have different radio stations for the car? But yes, I've also moaned about this. Or they're talking about their book and you've no idea who they are or what the subjects they are cryptically referring to are. Sometimes it's fun to guess, but often it transpires they're someone I've never heard of and have no idea why they are on Graham Norton's show

 

These new fangled cars have dab radio so get all the digital channels. So you can get any channels all over the UK.

I have a 10 year old car with basic radio. I get local/national radio only.

 

I don't even have a car and I can get every radio station in the UK. I assume you have a phone. Many, many aps available for that.

 

Talking of which, I have the radio on pretty much all the time, usually TalkSport but LBC when TS are broadcasting live games (not available here). Are there any other stations or particular programmes anyone recommends? Not music I prefer the talk radio format. I really miss Talk Radio before it became TS. Mike ****en, James Whale, Ian Collins and the Creatures of the Night...all good listening.

 

Wait 'til after Christmas, go to the sales and get the ex-display stuff. I got £3k's worth of new sofa & chairs for £600, delivered three days after I bought it. And it wasn't the bright red, weird design type stuff either!

 

I switch between BBC's 5live & 6music depending on the time/mood/event. Good balance between talk and music and no adverts, which I particularly despise on radio.

 

After Christian O’Connell left absolute radio I stopped listening to radio full stop, I used to really like him in the mornings but there is absolutely nothing else I could bare listening to.

Spotify has every song in the known universe, you can listen to what you want without the adverts and inane drivel.

 

Agreed. They seem to pretty much send the order out to "go and chop a tree down" about a week after you order the sofa.

 

Those seconds spent watching other teams celebrate after scoring against us.

 

BBC Five Live is pretty good. I often listen to Afternoon Edition in the car and it covers an interesting range of topics and interviews.

 

I can't find out her name. I think it's not Leona Graham. If shes from Amersham, that is bizarre because I've had some of my biggest rages at her ******** when driving through her home town

 

Intolerance is a blight on modern society.

 

I love the internet. Some people complaining about their roads being shut being blamed on Thatcher.

 

Their alleged nastiness aside isn’t it somewhat selfish that cyclists demand that everyone’s roads be closed for 7 hours so the can do their hobby? I am not impacted by this but as to your point about embracing the event and watch it I’d rather spend the day staring at the wall.

 

Very true. If Foot or later Kinnock had won we’d all be happy people sitting around singing Imagine, while cheering a 6 hour procession of amateur cyclists

 

Where does it end though before it is every other weekend? The roads are for public use. The London Marathon fine. I quite like doing radio controlled cars with my son. I propose to close the Watford ring road next Sunday between 12 and 6 so my son and his mates can race their cars - it would be an awesome circuit and I'm going to use the entrance to Kings as a pitstop area.

 

To be fair, if there were 10,000 of you like-minded plus 10x more to watch and then to raise millions for charity, then maybe it would be a suitable comparison, quite apart from the human achievement

 

I was joking of course. But serious question. 100,000 people spend the weekend watching randoms cycling from A to B at moderate speed??

 

Professional footballers wearing gloves on the first day of October - two such cahunts in Palace shirts tonight

 

Bear Grills. So a pig dies and they f***ing bury it. Really? That program is now dead to me. I give you my word I will never watch it again.

 

Being skint. Brassic. Zero pounds and zero pence and 10 days to go.

We put a brave face on it and try t make a joke out of it (eat one and skip one like a rabbit kids!) but is it is not very fun.

At the risk of being deemed alarmist or fanciful or crazy, I would warn you rich people, that you cannot carry on like this. Nothing against you personally, but you understand, we can't go on like this. You everything. Us nothing. You appreciate that, right?

If you grind us too hard, we'll come and get you. You understand that,.

 

That Jet2 advert, mostly because of that awful song by the screeching Jess Glynn. How the hell does anybody consider that singing? Squawking nasally in one note with all her might..... Kids, please stop buying this ****, or whatever it is you do nowadays that pushes ‘artistes’ up the hit parade. Parents, help stop future Jess Glynnes, please be honest with your precious young ones when they ask your opinion on their tonally challenged attempts at mimicking their pop heros.

 

I don’t know why this annoys me but it does. When I'm somewhere like a town centre and I’ve got my dog with me on a lead, it’s amazing the amount of people who from quite far away spot him and make that universal sort of squeaky/kissing noise used to try and beckon an animal towards you.

What do you think is going to happen, is my dog going to slip his lead and cross the road to come and say hello to you? Do you think he is going to wave at you or acknowledge you?

 

Needy companies.

When did business become so insecure? Requiring constant reassurance from its customers? Almost every time I order something online I get an email asking me to leave a review of my experience or to like them on Arsebook or Twatter or something. I don’t even have a presence on these platforms and I’m not going to sign up just to give you a like. It’s not just the small, local and privately owned businesses either, they are often the global ‘tax efficient’ ones asking for a few poxy ‘likes’ from other businesses. I can assure you that nobody else gives a monkeys if I approve of the dust pan and brush you’ve just sold me. You’ll know if I’m not happy because I’ll be signing straight up to the various social media websites and slagging you off like Watford’s latest boo boy.

Booooooooooo!

 

Virgin Media.

Stop sending me, my wife and ‘the householder’ weekly offers for TV and Internet through the post. It hasn’t worked for the last 5 years so what makes you think I’ll suddenly change my mind? How can you even afford to continually bombard my area with so many mail shots?

I’ve seen your ‘engineers’ work, so please get the message, I don’t want you to come and ‘hide’ a cable under 1/8th of an inch of soil in my front garden and smash the hell out of my brickwork to get your super fast fibre broadband stuff into my house. Thank you.

 

I used to think like that too, then my BT line went wrong and I witnessed incompetence at boss levels. Honestly I could write a book on BT's utter failures and lies.

After that Virgin were demi gods in my eyes.