Things you hate IV

People who ask you what your 'key takeaways' are from the online presentation you've just spent half an hour paying absolutely no attention to

 

Thai / Indian curry.

 

When the forum was playing up I ended up accessing it via the Google chrome app, this has now become an automatic behaviour. It means every time I click on the Google chrome app I first get presented with a few articles that are mainly Watford related to do with transfers etc.

They all have the most contorted click bait type headlines to that point that they verge on the ridiculous.

I know the genie is out of the bottle now and we’re never likely to go back to ‘normal’ headlines, but why did we ever have to resort into tricking people into reading anything?

 

"You'll never guess why people started using clickbait headlines".

 

Chrome is a nasty browser. Try to avoid anything linked to Google if you want to avoid them extracting every single piece of data they can about you.

Try Opera instead.

 

It has its moments, but it's not as good as just browsing the internet.

 

Good idea. Will Google that later.

 

HEATHEN!

 

Watch the documentary “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix if you have it.

 

This ****ing heat. Give me 18 degrees and drizzle any day.

 

The English will moan about any temperature that is not 16 centigrade +/- 2 degrees.

 

If people would like to do something practical that'll help us poor in the long term and where you can be sure we won't misuse it for gin and lottery scratchcards, then you could stop voting bloody Tory.

Thank you in advance kind ladies and gentlemen.

 

I've never voted Tory. Should I vote for them next time so that I can then stop voting Tory?

 

No, congratulate yourself for your wisdom and don’t vote for a party that lets them in by the back door.

 

I've not voted for labour either and stopped voting for anyone else as pointless. Politics is now just a sales and marketing job. Lie through your teeth, only say what you think the public want to hear irrespective of what you've been asked, only talk about your generous cash outflow, never talk about how it will be funded, in fact don't worry about how it will be funded at all as that may be someone else's problem anyway, just say whatever will get you votes in 4 year's time. TBF the occasional dabble into the politics section could be interesting as you and your bestie ZZ would occasionally have a proper to and fro debate that you just don't see on TV, but then that ended with insult-trading which spilled into other forums. I find politics incredibly frustrating these days, and without doubt the short-termism caused by the 4/5 year election cycles around the world will see the planet destroyed - who will vote to have a less enjoyable life so that people they don't know will have a planet to live on in 100 years time ? Which country/populations will make those sacrifices if others won't ? There....I feel a lot better now....

 

I can’t argue with your views on (party) politics generally, but not voting at all really cannot be an option.

 

I think you'll find it is . The day my local MP could have been decided by my vote I will hold my hand up, although had I voted, I'd not be sure I'd voted for the least bad option anyway.

 

My point is that there are more reasons to vote than simply to get the result you want. One is to record your preference, even in a losing scenario, another is to sustain the democratic process (low turn-outs help nobody except extremists) and, perhaps most importantly, to show respect for those in the past who sacrificed so much so that we have the opportunity.

My wife has never voted for a successful candidate in her life but would never ignore her right. Perhaps you could devote some time to campaign for the introduction of true proportional representation.

 

Not worried about recording my preference particularly when it wouldn't be statistically relevant.
I would be up in arms if I wasn't allowed to vote. But it's a right to vote, not a requirement to vote.

 

Monday mornings after a few miserable days off.

 

We need a "None of the above" box to register a vote. That will give everyone the option to register a dissatisfaction of all would be politicians.

 

Wokeness (if there is such a word), but I hope you get what I mean.

 

Getting instructions through the post from an organisation telling you to do something on their website, that are completely wrong.

"After logging in click on update my preferences" when the words "update my preferences" do not appear anywhere.

 

The way the BBC weather forecast seems to amble off into other things now. My example being a bit last night where the weather bloke was waffling on about the potential effects of the heatwave on trains, owing to the potential for heat damage to the tracks and therefore causing delays. It was both obvious and completely superfluous information when I imagine most viewers just want to know what the weather is going to be so they can make their own judgements. And if someone wants to know the effect it might have on their train journey they'd presumably seek out information from the rail companies.

 

I'd add to that the way that interviewers on BBC News programmes always ask 'How worried/concerned/anxious etc should we be about that?' regardless of what they're talking about - Covid, the heat, the cold, house prices, the falling bumble-bee population etc etc etc. No wonder the nation is full of fruit cakes worried/concerned/anxious about their mental health

 

Not much else to discuss, tbf:

 

Clearly not a ‘weather watcher’.

Can’t say the bit you relate sounds fascinating, but the longer forecasts often are, esp on Countryfile when they deliver the forecast, but in casual attire.

 

He’s a cheeky dreamboat that’s for sure.

 

Carol Kirkwood often had some important information for viewers.

 

Yes, so you say at every opportunity. And then hide when asked to define what you mean.

You culture war warriors got your arses kicked over taking the knee. Most people ended siding with the England players, even The Sun.

But you still want to play this game?

 

Nice didn't realise she was into that. Will have to look her up.

 

Sand in your vag today? Bit out of order imho.

 

What an unpleasant phrase. I trust you only use it on the internet.

Anti-woke warriors like VOR have been drearying on about what they casually dismiss as ‘woke’ for some while now. This isn’t VOR’s first attempt, he was at it a couple of weeks back.

He can’t define what is so different between him having an opinion and those he dismisses as ‘woke’ for also freely having opinions.

You know full well that the knee taking has been one the prime targets for this type of thinking, so no, not out of order at all. What exactly is your objection?