Soccer obsession. You know where you can recite every transfer fee paid for every player in the last 20 years.
Obsession with the Royal family.
Golf.
Six Nations. As a foreigner I dont really understand rugby, but neither do most of the british people that seem to watch it. It also always seem to bring up conversations about the NFL, even though they are completely different spors.
Writing Er or Erm at the start of a post.
The amount of clothes my missus owns but does not wear.
& Foals - the band. I just don't get it.
British gas.
The one thing I really struggle to understand on a daily basis and if I stop to ponder it for too long I start to feel very depressed is how a human can inflict physical pain on another human knowing how much, for example it bloody hurts when you do something innocuous like stub your toe. I just don't understand how people can stab, torture and rape etc.
People who park 2 foot from the back of your car......in an half empty trail center car park.....WTF
People who write “should of”;
Editors and proof readers who don’t appear to have edited nor proof read.
Gilets. Warm you torso but you still have cold arms.
Foreigners.
People who use military jargon on bicycle web sites.
that **** who insists on sitting in the alotted seat number on their ticket on an otherwise empty train, even if it means sitting next to me or asking me to move!
The love for Top Gun
Religion, and in particular people that kill in the name of it. Stupid, cruel and utterly pointless.
Katie Price
How is it possible that all the stuff in the universe has always existed in one state or another?*
Ow, my head.
* “God did it” is not a good enough answer.
People who get mardy about “Can I get?” and don’t realise that to get can mean to obtain rather than collect oneself- get over it.
How is it possible that all the stuff in the universe has always existed in one state or another?*
Anyone who goes to the trouble of bagging their dog's poo but then leaves the bagged offering on the side of the path / in a tree. WHY???
And hoodies with the hoods up
Funny how fashions shift, isn't it. These days it's 'gangsta' to try and hide your face, like you could be up to no good any moment now. When I was at school if you wore a hood you'd get picked on for being soft.
Did you snot 'em in the puss for calling you soft when you had your hood up?
Then I hate to say this, but...
Cheese and onion crisps. Cheese is great, onions are great, cheese and onions together are great, cheese and onion crisps are rancid.
People that have queued for an age but are still not ready to order when they're up.
Ludicrously loud and intrusive ring-tones.
Stealth boasting on social media, especially on Facebook - with accompanying photo. Some sort of self deprecating post that surreptitiously draws attention to a career advancement or material acquisition.
Laughter that derives from The Last Leg TV show.
Spitting chewing gum into the urinal.
So, I was like, literally.
The price of fashionable pints of beer in Cardiff.
People that have queued for an age but are still not ready to order when they’re up.
On a related note, people in the queue for security at the airport who get to the front and THEN start rummaging in bags for liquids, gels, electronics, boarding pass. Seriously, WTF were you doing for all that time while waiting?!
It's probably already been said, but:
Sick Bicycles
Rich Energy
Dark roast coffee
The popularity of Donald Trump (in the US)
The popularity of football (only about 1% of a match has any interesting bits)
Rugby (ditto, but you can't even see the ball for 50% of the time)
There are many others.
JP
Fisting
22 men (?) kicking a ball around.
Riding a bike on roads only for 'fun'.
McDonalds.
People who drive like theyr'e in Wacky Races at 06.30.
Children. (shouldv'e been at the top)
Nutjobs who think people with a different political stance are 'idiots', (lost count on here)
Sorry but at my age my list is just about endless.
Fisting
As the fister or the fistee?
As the fister or the fistee?
Either
Oh and retractable dog leads.
They make a good retractable washing line once your canine friend has departed to the big cat in the sky though 🙂
People who scratch their ass and upload it to Strava as an 'activity'.
Durian fruit chocolates. WTF was someone thinking putting that filthy abomination into a chocolate coating and disguising just for a microsecond it's vile hideousness and eternal aftertaste.
Just wrong.
Wrong.
Hideous.
Reality.
We know it exists because we're here, and we can see it, feel it, smell it, and even detect it with clever devices like radio telescopes and things. But it's still just electro-chemical signals in the billions of neurons in our brains and trillions of connections between them that somehow interprets all this. In fact if you mess around with your brain with various substances then reality changes. How can we trust it? And if we can't is any of it real? I can't even comprehend what reality means let alone whether it exists.
On a lighter note, I don't understand why people want to buy kettles connected to the internet.
I'm with you on net kettles.
Music snobs - it's all just noise......🙂
People who re-enact the most boring periods of history. Vikings, Romans etc I can understand, but those who choose to sit in a hut made out of grass and cowshit whilst eating nettles? Please.
Baked beans
People +1
@dazh reality +1 Truths are subjective and facts have a half life, meaning half of what you think you know is untrue... But you don't know which half.
The number of coffee shops on the average high street, artisan or otherwise.
CCTV footage. In the age of ultra hd,5k cctv footage is always grainy and blurred.
The number of coffee shops on the average high street, artisan or otherwise.
This + many!
I was back in my home city of Durham last week, It's all fancy coffee shops & eaty places now! (& those chavvy smoke inhalation accessory outlets)
Knighthoods, people referred to as a national treasure.
Why someone would tell my wife and her friend who were sat outside our house to stop looking at him or he would punch their heads in.
Please help me find him!!!!
t’s all fancy coffee shops & eaty places now
I'm not sure that's recent though, and it's not surprising given that the cathedral is a UNESCO world heritage site (= lots of visitors) and there is a large student population for much of the year. I don't mind too much as long as there are enough local businesses to not spoil the character…
^How we can base our economy on making each other cups of coffee. It’s not going to end well.
SUVs in general, 99% of them never go off-road, more than 80% of new ones on sale today were never designed to go off-road. They’re pointlessly big on the outside, inefficiently small on the inside and every part of their design is at odds to good car design.
That’s because you’re entirely missing the point of an SUV/crossover - they’re NOT supposed to be an off-road vehicle, and quite a few are 4x4’s, the point is to make a fairly compact car with reasonable load space but a higher seating position for the very large number of people who don’t consider themselves to be Surfmatt or a driving god from Top Gear! I have got into a saloon car, where the seating position meant I was just looking over the top of the steering wheel! And I’m 5’10”!
People want cars they can get in and out of easily, not have to crawl out, or need someone to help them get out of the car. This is why Ford USA are no longer producing saloon cars, apart from the Mustang, which is a sports car. I find getting in and out of my Octavia increasingly problematic these days, my next car will be an SUV, probably a 4x4; who knows, with the right tyres, it might even venture off-road!
Gilets. Warm your torso but you still have cold arms.
No, there are many, many occasions when it’s cool enough to want to keep your torso warm, but with a long-sleeved jacket or top the sleeves would be pushed up, so a gilet avoids stretching the cuffs.
I’ve got a Fox Racing gilet I bought in Chamonix back in the late 90’s, it’s possibly an item of clothing I’ve worn the most, because it’s perfect for conditions when a tee shirt isn’t enough, but a jacket or sweatshirt is too much, both indoors or out.
Maybe you never venture outside your living room to need such an item...
