Things you hate III

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

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  1. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    Teresa "The Traitor" May :mad:
     
  2. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Ridiculous indeed. The people that do this will often say they're doing it for the local kids / charity etc. They're not. They're doing it for attention. But whatever the reason, 'good' or bad, it's still the 14th of f****** November!
     
  3. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Yawn.
     
  4. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    There is a house near where I work that I sometimes park near and I kid you not it was covered in Xmas lights and decorations in the middle of October. I did also think it a little odd that it also has what I assumed was a child’s name lit up in big letters.

    It turns out that the kid died and Xmas was it’s favourite time of year hence the big display.

    Obviously it’s very sad, but I don’t think covering your house in Xmas lights for a quarter of the year is a particularly tasteful tribute, I’d also reason that Xmas is likely to be every kids favourite time of year.
     
  5. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Mobile phones held aloft to record bad quality videos at music events.

    If you do this please die.
    You wont watch it again. no one else is interested in your **** video
     
  6. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    And FFS hold it horizontal.
     
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  7. wimbornet

    wimbornet Reservist

    The phrase “I’ll make you right”.
    I’d put it up there with “..can I get?” when ordering things.
     
  8. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    I’ll make you right. Not heard it? What does it mean
     
  9. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    ditto
     
  10. wimbornet

    wimbornet Reservist

    Ditto too!
     
  11. Ditto ditto ditto.

    Shawn Mendez - "Do you got plans tonight".

    F### off you illiterate imbecile.

    Sorry. It's been a long week.
     
  12. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Who the **** is Shawn Mendez? I genuinely have no idea.

    And why can’t he spell his first name correctly?
     
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  13. I am very limited to radio stations in my area and I'm ashamed to say Capital Yorkshire is one of them that I sometimes frequent on the way to work.

    Some really, really annoyingly irritating breakfast show presenter called Jojo, a more lairy and annoying version of Mel B, breaks up some very ordinary and dull music.

    It's a rare change from talksport which has been the main channel of choice to and from work given the alternative options.
     
  14. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    If it helps, I have for some reason four jars of mint sauce
     
  15. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    Deservedly so if you're drinking that rubbish
     
  16. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Mike 'look at ME all the time' Bushell, that odious BBC sports reporter who likes to try the minority sports he 'reports' on.

    Listen, you smug, ugly, short-arsed moron, if you report on these sports at least... report on these sports! It's NOT about you having a try at them, it's about them. He had a go at women's basketball this morning, but it was all about him making an alleged joke about him being too short to slam-dunk and standing on a ladder instead.

    Just f*** off.
     
  17. Get a DAB radio.
     
  18. Customer service people saying 'no problem' when addressing a service issue (phone, wifi, etc). Of course it's a ******* problem. That's why I called you, picked my way through 6 options and sat waiting for 15 minutes to tell you.
     
  19. My car radio is moulded into the dashboard so not sure I'm able to. Being completely honest I've not actually looked into it though so will have a look.

    I could always turn TuneIn radio on on my phone I suppose.
     
  20. That's what I do!
     
  21. Guy

    Guy Squad Player

    Linked to 'anything else can I help you with' .... No , if wanted anything else I would tell you..
     
  22. International Breaks.

    God I'm bored.
     
  23. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    And uploading it almost immediately desperate for view on whatever platform they upload it to. How about actually trying to savour the atmosphere and being part of it rather than outside of it. I have recorded a talk recently at Foyles with Antonio Pappano and Ian Bostridge who were talking about lieder from two young composers prematurely killed in the Great War George Butterworth and Rudi Stephan but that was more for my own edification as it was a very interesting talk/lecture. I did not record some of the lieder when Ian and Antonio were actually performing.
     
  24. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Old people
     
  25. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I'm no psychologist or sociologist, but it seems that the instagram generation need to be seen to be at events, rather than to be present at them for the sake of being there. For people who catalogue every moment of their life with a selfie and a hashtag, life is simply a diary of photographs in different locations, rather than the experiences themselves. Obviously there are degrees within this, but it's a cancer, eating real joy away from people's lives.
     
  26. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    #Generation selfie

    My wife sometimes shows me pictures of friends on instabook or facialgram and I often don’t recognise them because they’ve filtered away all of their features
     
  27. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Yes, I just don’t get it but it must stem from massive insecurity that people need to show everyone else how great their life is and what fun they’re having. It's almost as if people do stuff purely for the sake of showing everyone on social media, rather than just because they actually want to do it.

    Also let’s face it, not every experience in life is amazing but to these people who document everything on social media everything seems to be. We’ve all had crap nights out, been to crap gigs, seem crap films and eaten at crap restaurants. Yet every experience to these people is ‘amazing’.

    I was separated about 6 months ago, I’m on Instagram and Facebook etc but I’ve actually gone the opposite way, I haven’t posted a thing. I’ve had a great time and had some great experiences but they have been for me to enjoy and nobody else. I couldn’t give a **** what anybody else thinks about my life and don’t want to prove anything to anybody.

    It’s terribly sad that so may of the younger generation now feel the need to try and portray that their life is so wonderful and amazing and they’re having such a great time, rather than actually just enjoying themselves.
     
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  28. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    I'm glad you came on social media saying how great your life is in a post criticising people who go on social media saying how great their lives are.
     
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  29. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Why is it that every photo of a woman on facebook has to be met with the "Beautiful babe" "Pretty girl" "gorgeous girls" "lovely ladies" etc comment ? Are women that insecure about how they look ? I couldn't give a monkey's how i look in a photo, in fact the funnier the better. I'm not allowed to stick a bunch of our holidays pics on Flickr as my wife doesn't like how she looks. I tried to reason with "your friends already know how ugly you are" but it didn't help....I was joking FFS.
     
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  30. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    On the whole, yes they are. Face it, everything women read, watch and have thrust in their faces is about how to be and look better. Even when the media is pretending to be kind to them and promoting body confidence, or positive self image, it's secretly undermining them and telling them they can only look good if the buy this cream or wear this outfit.

    It's a couple of centuries of conditioning and it's self perpetuating. It's not men who are forcing these expectations on women, it's other women. Fashion editors, social media "influencers," their friends and colleagues etc.

    Men are simple creatures. We're not worried about flawless skin, perfect eyebrows and thigh gaps. We're after a big pair of knockers and not too much fat.
     
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  31. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Does that summarise the viewpoints of your various female logins ?
    ps I prefer smaller "knockers".
     
  32. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    I only use FB for the various disability groups. I used to look at the FB profile of anyone I saw on the various whom I found "interesting". What usually happened was that their FB stream was full of pictures of cats, "I support Alfie's Army - What aren't you? "type posts and various "magical" "cures" for "autism" campaigns because "...the government doesn't want us getting them..." Some of them I was intrigued to meet face-to-face at various meetings - I wouldn't actually describe their profile pictures as "flattering" as I know what that word means. It's a cesspool.
     
  33. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    I'm really, really odd as I also expect decent/intelligent conversation with them.
     
  34. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Pervert
     
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  35. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I'm 40, so I'm just too old to get it, I think. When I have gone to work functions with people from 25-35, literally every few minutes they are frizzing up their hair, holding their phone at a particular, well chosen angle, looking down at themselves, turning their body slightly to accentuate waist thinness and bust size and then making their best duck face to camera. A quick review, edit, filter and then slam, it goes online with the others for all their friends to look at.

    I can't imagine how tedious the average person's instagram feed must be. Sure, if you're a wildlife photographer, or a fashion designer, or a porn star, but otherwise, who is actually looking at all these pictures?
     
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