Things you hate IV

Along with ‘ripped him/her a new ars*hole’. I mean c’mon, is that really necessary?

 

It is if you're having a colostomy bag fitted.

 

WFC Forums post of the day.

 

Wife tried signing me up for deodorant on a regular deliver. Turned out around the house I already had about 8 bottles.

The front page of Amazon product often says by 1pm next day, but default to next day or other later date. You have to then change deliver preference to before 1pm yourself. Trickier when you have 2 or more items incoming.

I bought a trail camera at 23.30 and it arrived at 9am the next day. I feel for the night shift.

 

The reason I hate 'smashed it out the park' so much, is because it's almost exclusively used in mundane and non-superlative settings, for example a team who have prepared a PowerPoint deck for a new marketing initiative or an executive who has just delivered quarterly results to a meeting, showing that they are not far enough behind target that they can't make it back up in the next quarter.

It's rarely ever an exciting achievement.

 

Yep or even managing the highly technical feat of ordering a takeaway.

 

Smashed it!

Or even digging into that takeaway. 'OmG this bhuna is amazing. You smashed it by ordering this Gaz.'

 

The only I think this phrase really works is with someone like R Lee Ermey screaming it at a new recruit in a drill sergeant, beasting setting.

Along with the phrase 'I will rip off your head and **** down your throat'

 

Subtle, your wife.

 

I do smell. But its more of an organisational thing.

 

Have to say, the PR campaign from the royal family since that Oprah interview has been a sight to behold. Near daily coverage of the right royals in all the right newspapers for weeks on end. Puff pieces all over the shop. Potential scandals effortlessly swatted away. Loyalists emboldened.

I wonder if the Queen took some tips from Trump when he popped over a couple of years ago?

 

Eurovision, or more so the coverage of it. Why on earth does it get so much? Who cares? Got to be the most pointless thing ever invented.

 

You can say the same thing about football. 11 men running round a patch of grass kicking a round ball into a net. Pointless isnt it.

Each to their own, I've learnt that in my time. Aside from Tennis and UFC. They're ****.

 

Fair point, I just can’t get my head around it though.

At least with sport/football you can choose to watch it based on the knowledge of the quality and where they are in the hierarchy. So if you watch a premier league game you at least know you’re watching elite level sport.

With Eurovision we just put forward some random crap song that wouldn’t even get anywhere number one in the charts and is just objectively crap.

It’s not like you’re listening to some genuinely good songs, just a load of random rubbish.

It’s then judged on the basis of you as a country not the quality of the song anyway.

 

@The PozzMan We both know that’s not true. Kedvesem!

 

@hornmeister is there gonna be a SB this year?

 

Kedvesem! I will hear nothing bad against that song.

 

All of those are awful, but even worse is when flinty Amanda tears up for contestants on BGT or gives that awww expression every time a performing child takes the stage.

 

Presume like me you never watch these dreadful programs for this and many other reasons ? You can guarantee that the worst of TV programs are available on the main stations at peak Saturday night viewing time. Something that Grannies right down to 10 year olds can get into. The whole family round the TV and Ms Holden ticks boxes for the whole family age range.

 

I won’t be watching them now there are no longer school age children in the house. But yes, family viewing.

 

There must be some kind of hydraulics at work under her sausage poisoned face, to enable the paralysed tissue to eject a tear.

 

She’s like a replicant mimicking human emotions without understanding them.

 

Also, the way she over laughs at any joke at her expense, to show how much of a good sport she is. I bet she's had runners and minor production crew fired loads of times for minor protocol breaches.

 

The One Show. Used to be a reasonable way to kill 30 mins after/during dinner. Over the last year, and esp now with Alex Jones/Jermaine Jenas/Michael Ball presenting, it has become a show presented by 2 zero personality/zero intelligence aimed at 11 year olds.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57270415

A two-fold one here. I hate that companies take the piss out of vulnerable people by rewarding their loyalty with ever increasing prices. But I also hate that everything always has to be reduced to the level of the lowest common denominator. Why can't they just put in place safeguards for the elderly and vulnerable but leave the rest of the market open to those who can be bothered to shop around, change suppliers for things etc?

In effect this will push up prices for everyone except the lazy who will see theirs drop in return for zero effort. 5 years with the same car insurer without comparing prices? You might as well have 'Mug' as your middle name...

 

I suppose it depends on the nature of the safeguards but could conceivably be reverse age discrimination?

It's also not just age or vulnerabolity, is it? Some people are just too busy to do this (families with young kids, or tose with demanding jobs, for example).

 

But that's life isn't it? The value you put on spending your time doing one thing over another is the type of decision we take most days. If I'm busy with the kids and work and don't have time to mow the grass it gets long and untidy (as it is currently, dammit).

And discrimination is fine as long as it's for a legitimate purpose. A bus pass or a senior's discount at the chippy could be seen as reverse age discrimination too but they're accepted.

 

Everyone has time to do it, it’s just they’d always prefer to be doing something else, even if that something else is just doing nothing watching TV.

 

I agree with the point about discrimination. On the first one though: I dunno, it feels to me like there is something unfair about penalising those who don't have time on their hands relative to others. Whereas the only relative penalty you suffer from the neglect of the lawn is that your garden doesn't look as good as next door, or your kids might moan.

Also, conceptually, insurance is about risk. Why should people be expected to pay more if their risk level hasn't changed, or is no different to that of a new customer?

 

I don't agree. If you are, say, a junior doctor working stupidly long shifts, you could easily be too busy or tired to do it in time, or forget to do so because of other pressures. Why should someone like that be penalised by comparison with someone who is actually sitting around doiing nothing all day?

 

I haven’t read the specifics of it, I just don’t agree people don’t have time to do these type of things. Fwiw I forget to do stuff like this all the time, but I still have plenty of time to exercise, walk my dogs, watch TV, go to the pub, waste time on here etc. Most people complain they don’t have time but in reality it would take about 10 minutes if you were organised and set yourself a simple reminder, the reality is most people don’t because they don’t want to and would rather do something else.