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So he then asks if we can give them some of ours.
Was your reply “**** no, I worked hard for the dollar”
Actually it was a bit more sensible "that's a conversation for another time dude" I think is what I said.
A UN which is totally helpless to prevent one UN member state invading another.
Hand driers that make anyone on the ASD spectrum jump like they’re connected to a 10kV supply.
The first past the post system.
Hunger
Poverty
Homelessness
Armed conflict
Tin-Pot dictators.
Constant growth as a mark of success.
Buying homes for investment purposes.
Rights of access laws that lead to byways and bridleways that end in the middle of nowhere and are so complex that no-one can understand them (Scotland excepted).
Sunday opening hours
Brexit,
cash,
Road accidents,
People who drive without a licence, insurance, tax, MOTs, whilst disqualified.
Russia
Hypocrisy.
Sadly endemic in our caring sharing ideally socialist world.
Humans. 25% of what we have and most of the worlds problems would go.
"Rights of access laws that lead to byways and bridleways that end in the middle of nowhere and are so complex that no-one can understand them (Scotland excepted)"
PMSL
its very simple and very logical unless you are a selfish type.
It was more a wish the the rules and regs in the rest of the UK are the same as Scotland. Plenty of rights of way round here (NE England) still end in the middle of nowhere, and the issue of whether a bike is a normal accompaniment hasn't been settled yet (AFAIK).
Imperial measurement.
Hunting as a sport.
Choosing to kill an animal for no other purpose than simply to kill it is wrong on every possible level. Actually turning it into a spectacle / tradition as with foxhunting / bullfighting etc is truly revolting.
Anything that relies on personal honour and honesty with no safeguards.
Imperial measurement.
Yup, give 'em 2.54cm and they'll take 1.61km.
Square drive screws, I still do not understand why they are still used when Torx has been around for ages! 🤷♂️
The Russian Federation
Me.
Tapioca
Middle class muppets complaining on forums about things that they have no idea about and make no effort to get involved in, understand or change.
Also the same people not being clever enough, despite their high and mighty stances, to be able to use imperial and metric measurements equally as well. They are both really easy, just different bases.
Kevin Costner movies.
Motor racing.
Computer gaming.
just different bases.
Imperial doesn't really have the concept of a consistent base. Relationships between one unit and the next are mostly random.
Middle class muppets
People that define other folk by assuming they belong to a certain 'class' or tribe. In fact, all lazy generalisations have no place in a modern society.
Harly Davidson motor bikes
Slow, unreliable, ridiculously noisy, polluting uneconomical engines.
Killing in the name of religion
Seriously
My imaginary friend is better than your imagined friend and as someone with a chip on their shoulder or sand in their socks has their pants in a wad up their arscrack about who is better we best get on murdering folks.
Middle class muppets complaining on forums about things [...] to be able to use imperial and metric measurements equally as well
Same as, equal to....Especially the grammar pedants, right?...they can **** right off.
Oh, the monarchy as an institution. They really have no place.
Uplift venues that charge more for eBikes.
Why would you need an uplift if you've got a motor bike?
Dogs
Religion
Litter
Prawn cocktail crisps
Have Coldplay been dispatched to the dustbin of history yet?
Computer gaming
Wow, out of touch much? 😂
Computers are modern society.
Let me tell you something that happened throughout lockdown. I organised (with the permission of their parents who are my friends) a weekly evening of playing Forza Horizon with a group of mid teen lads. A couple of friends of mine joined it too. I wanted to try and help them have something to look forward to.
Most of the time we talked about the game and what we were playing but there were many times where we discussed how they were coping with lockdown and some really serious topics.
One of the lads mums spoke to me after a few months of doing this and thanked me for helping her son who had really struggled through lockdown and was having some mild/medium mental health issues because of it but the weekly gaming session was the one thing he looked forward to every week and had got him through some really tough times. He had discussed how he was struggling with us in a way he hadn’t been able to with his parents.
You may not understand computer gaming but it’s part of kids lives now, it’s part of how they get together and is now pretty inclusive to male and female, indeed kids with mental health issues or disabilities have found online gaming and the interactions within it a way to express and be themselves in ways they never could before and gone on to help them in the “real” world (for want of a better expression).
I used to be someone who would say “kids need to get out and play more”. I don’t say that any more as I know they still do and for most kids computers are just a part of their lives, actually improving it. At 45yo I learnt this lesson and it really opened my eyes.
Pop and farting exhausts on chavy shitboxes.
This, any stupidly loud vehicle, including most motorbikes! ****ers!
Apostrophes on plural words.
Harly Davidson motor bikes
Slow, unreliable, ridiculously noisy, polluting uneconomical engines.
Just you wait, come the apocalypse, we'll all need a Mad Max Custom Vehicle.
Most of the time we talked about the game and what we were playing but there were many times where we discussed how they were coping with lockdown and some really serious topics.
I'm glad you posted this.
People need to get their head around the notion that modern gaming can be a social experience. A few years ago I used to play World of Warcraft, the tabloid poster-boy of sad sacks spending their lives doing nothing else. And whilst there's an element of that in some quarters - and WoW far from has the monopoly here, just spend any time in the company of a football fan - it is by nature a social activity. In-game you have parties of 5, 10, 20 people who have to communicate and coordinate, one false move can wipe out the entire team. But it's more than that, it's a means of getting people talking. Most people in my 'clan' were real-life friends who are geographically diverse, WoW got everyone together to hang out for a couple of hours. Sometimes we'd game, sometimes we'd discuss Dave's new car. Sometimes we'd have friends-of-friends who would go on to become new friends.
Today my WoW days are long behind me, but I still talk to old friends mostly on the Xbox. It's little different from going to the pub except I don't need a taxi home. The notion that gaming is inherently antisocial is a myth.
You may not understand computer gaming but it’s part of kids lives now
Sorry, "kids"? I've been gaming for 40 years.
In no particular order
Royal Family
Ed Sheran
Private Schools
Non dom status and tax avoidance
The introduction of a democratic electoral system in the UK
Right to roam
Big job to get rid of these though.
I think - with my sensible head on for a second really do, as a society, need to address the vast vast differences in wealth, (and the accumulation of wealth) of some of the richest land owners, and aristos in the UK.
There's really no good reason to let a largely medieval system persist.
Love of social disparity is the root of all evil.
Updated from 'love of money'.
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
Naked Attraction tele programme.
to be able to use imperial and metric measurements equally as well. They are both really easy, just different bases.
yeap as simple as that 🙂
Naked Attraction tele programme.
I preferred the radio version
yeap as simple as that 🙂
@maccruiskeen that is a great visualisation. I was trying to put it in words for my earlier reply but I gave up!
Tories.
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
Steve Wright any time.