Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

It’s raining again (here and in Perth).

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Bonnet bras. What’s the point? To keep the front end of your motor nice and shiny for the next person while you drive round with a massive ugly piece of plastic stuck to the front of your car?! Madness. Even though it’s none of my business they do make me disproportionately cross whenever I drive past a car with one!

The absolute throbbing thundercnuts speeding through the school car park like it’s the Grand Prix. (I’m only here cos Fazzini-jnr-jnr still can’t walk very far following his leg break.)

Also, WTF is a bonnet bra??? Not googling it just in case 😳

WTF is a bonnet bra???

Dual use garment. Hat and underwear.  All the rage, get with the program!

‘Velcro’ that stops working after relatively little use.

The ‘velcro’ on my Topeak MTS bag no longer holds the bag in place. It is going to be a pain finding some decent Velcro and the replacing the existing stuff.

Similar problem, but probably higher use, with the ‘velcro’ on TLD, 100%, etc .. glove cuffs.

We’re currently in a holiday let in Fife. There’s no kerbside recycling collection, it’s covered by a series of big bins in the carpark up the hill. No problem, I just took a bag of assorted packaging up and started posting into the appropriate slots. Except I couldn’t get anything through one marked ‘Cans and Plastic’ so I opened the lid to see what was the score. Slot blocked by a roll of carpet. Out of curiosity, I opened the other bin for cans and plastic. Amongst the correct contents, there was also a laptop in it. FFS. Are people genuinely thick as mince?

Are people genuinely thick as mince?

Yes.

Refill packs of, for example, instant coffee.

1, they are never the same size as the jars.

2, they are more expensive than buying a new jar.

So annoying.

See also: large bottles of stuff that are more expensive than 2 small bottles containing the same quantity.

Oh, also, trying to dispose of a small sheet of asbestos from my old garage.

Took it to the local tip (well wrapped up) and asked the guy there “I think this is asbestos, can you take it?”

He recoiled like I was holding a bomb! Then told me yes they do have a skip for asbestos, it’s just over there. Oh, as it’s inside the staff only area you have to wear full PPE:

A hard hat
Safety glasses
A high visibility jacket or vest and trousers
Safety gloves
Safety boots or shoes (steel-capped)

All that to walk about 5m inside the gate and drop something in a skip, the opposite end of the car park from where all the machinery is. They won’t handle it for you. FFS. 🤦‍♂️ It’s a double wrapped package of solid asbestos tile, not a radioactive high-explosive.

“Are people genuinely thick as mince?”

I came here to post about the dog owners who drop their poo bags in people’s recycling boxes.  So yes, people really are that thick.

No facemask though @ossify ?

Scroats on bikes wearing balaclavas, aside from the fact they are clearly up to no good, they ride like absolute idiots.

Father’s day.

50% of the days each year I’m expected to do something for myself whilst simultaneously trying to keep 3 kids busy who have no interest in doing what I want to do. So I don’t get to do what I want.

Also, receiving gifts. I hate it, don’t know why. Especially when I’ve been specific in stating that I don’t want anything other than freedom/peace and quiet.

Football seems to be the only sport where people start talking about it without saying actually saying “football” or anything similar, and just assume everyone else knows they’re talking about football.

Im completely naive with most sports and the other day people were talking about “the euros” and I thought they were talking about the lottery.

Football seems to be the only sport where people start talking about it without saying actually saying “football” or anything similar, and just assume everyone else knows they’re talking about football.

Im completely naive with most sports and the other day people were talking about “the euros” and I thought they were talking about the lottery.

If someone asks me what team I support, for a bit of fun I’ll say redbull/Mercedes/Ferrari or whatever…and then watch the expression whilst they try to understand what’s just been said 😀

Absolute Radio, or indeed pretty much any commercial station.

My new workplace has it on to my horror.

Why TF do people actually choose to listen to this absolute shower of complete shit?

Completely safe mauve MOR all day, with a playlist that’s just playing stuff from around the turn of the century that was mauve then, interspersed with kin awful mind numbing dreadful adverts every ten minutes.

Not a sniff of anything remotely new to the world.

If I have to hear another McDonalds whistle! 😡😡😡

I defy anyone to explain the appeal of Absolute Radio.

Chris Moyles is on the ducker ffs!
I mean wtaf? 😡
Why?

It’s absolutely brilliant music for people who have no interest in music.

I will never understand.

Football seems to be the only sport where people start talking about it without saying actually saying “football” or anything similar, and just assume everyone else knows they’re talking about football.

Yep.  See also, people talking about upcoming events in London.

I defy anyone to explain the appeal of Absolute Radio.

Nope cannot. Absolute turgid dross. Heart, Capital, Kiss, etc, all the same. It’s like they’ve cut a slit in a piece of paper and held it up at arms length in front of them and said: look through this slit, this is the only music we’re going to play.

Fortunately I can wear ear-buds at my work place so I can listen to music I actually enjoy listening to (or skip music I’m not in the mood for), and therefore avoid getting disproportionately cross about the shite on the radio trying to infect me with rabid earworms.

I’m more of a radio2 kinda guy these days, bit of virgin too  😀

Opening a box of tablets and finding the information leaflet……arghhhhh every single time.

The way the media slavishly refers to the USA’s private banking cartel as a bona-fide govt body, despite the ‘federal reserve’ having no such legitimacy. Whatsoever.

People that introduce new colours to describe stuff and then have me questioning my understanding.

What is ‘completely safe mauve MOR’, why couldn’t you have used beige which would have been my go to? Why mauve? Is there a new significance I don’t know about? I always thought mauve was a little bit different, a bit daring, a hint of the …. y’know?

[Seriously – I always thought mauve was a 60’s? slang term meaning gay – I can imagine Kenneth Williams saying it ‘Oh, he’s SO mauve!’]

What is ‘completely safe mauve MOR’, why couldn’t you have used beige

I could of have of of have, but in my disproportionate rage, I completely forgot that beige was the word I was looking for and mauve was in my head from a conversation the other day. 😬
Apologies.

I quite like Absolute Radio. On digital they have different playlists so you have the same DJing but different music so you can pick the station to suit. I usually listen to the 80s playlist. The DJs aren’t too bad, a bit cheesy and old school, but better than radio 2. Adverts and the phone in competition are annoying but it makes good background.

Any EV ad on social media is immediately pounced upon by people slagging off EVs in the comments.

I don’t get it. Why invest your time doing that? If you don’t like them, just go and enjoy your ICE car.

Or is it Russian bots trying to save the oil industry?

I quite like Absolute Radio. On digital they have different playlists so you have the same DJing but different music so you can pick the station to suit. I usually listen to the 80s playlist. The DJs aren’t too bad, a bit cheesy and old school, but better than radio 2. Adverts and the phone in competition are annoying but it makes good background.

That’s the thing you see, if music actually interests you, then I don’t think you want just background.
I want to hear interesting music and people talking about it, not another effin Keane song. 😔

Sums up the appeal well though I suppose. It’s for people who just want it in the background and have no interest in it.

Car adverts, all of them.

There is nothing in your plastic, aspirational lifestyle that I desire.

Chris Moyles is on the ducker ffs!

No, no he’s not. That’s radio X. I know that because I actively avoid anything he’s on.

It’s for people who just want it in the background

Isn’t that most radio? It’s there to fill the void of silence and boredom whilst working, driving or doing something else. Does anyone actually put the radio on, sit in a chair and just listen to the radio (exception made for Archers for the old folks)?

Airport short stay car parking. Absolute thieves.

Dropped my daughter off at Edinburgh on Sunday. She was going away for 3 months so wanted to take her into the terminal, through check in etc and wave her off at security. Parked for around 35 mins in designated short stay.  Queued at payment machine only to find it doesn’t take contactless and I only had phone so I queued at parking desk only for him to tell me I could pay contactless at exit barrier. No signage anywhere telling me that was possible. Then, the final insult, £15 for 35 mins of parking.

Opening a box of tablets and finding the information leaflet……arghhhhh every single time.

Oh yes! Schrödinger’s paper, I call it.

I sometimes find myself going to open a box and then stopping, hmm, no let’s try the other side… no wait, maybe it’s double bluffing me… hmm… ok, this side… arrgh

It’s for people who just want it in the background

Isn’t that most radio? It’s there to fill the void of silence and boredom whilst working, driving or doing something else. Does anyone actually put the radio on, sit in a chair and just listen to the radio

Don’t sit in a chair but I can work and listen. I’m engaged. I pay more attention if it’s interesting, I laugh if it’s funny, I throw shapes if it’s funky. I hear interviews, I evaluate new songs that are introduced. Engaged, not passive.

You can’t do that with Absolute Radio because it holds nothing interesting or engaging. It’s designed for people who do not want to think about or hear anything different, that only like what they like and don’t want that challenged, but for me, it’s just so terrible that it’s impossible to ignore…. all bloody day.

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Any radio station that plays music and every DJ who work on them. They are all terrible. This is why we have Spotify, Tidal, Deezer etc. Radio is for old people or those who have no real interest in music. Radio 4 is good for talking and laughing when the presenters make politicians squirm.

Pausing/ rewinding/ fforwarding a YouTube video always causes the image to dim. Why?

Mr funkmaster, have you tried https://somafm.com/ ?

Lots of (alternative) genres to choose from, which may/maynot be your bag of teacups.

I usually forget about it tbh, and just opt for my collection (16 days worth) on shuffle. Which can be awesome sometimes, real suprises, tracks I’ve forgotten I’ve bought, or just randomly chooses a selection of tracks that flow well together. Other times, STOP PLAYING TUNES FROM THAT ALBUM I DONT WANT TO LISTEN TO RIGHT NOW!

People who say they’re into the “detailing scene” when what they actually mean is they waste too much time obsessively cleaning a car

Username checks out.

99% of people don’t know this about

something really dull and uninteresting, because, 99% of people have got better things to do with their lives and couldn’t give a shit.

That’s right my home lacks a loft conversion with roof windows.

England’s batsmen still being completely devoid of ability against spin bowling.

Car drivers who swing out to the right, across the centre line, to turn left cos, you know, slowing down for the manoeuvre properly, will make them late.

See also left turners going too fast and swinging onto the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic using the turn right lane at a t-junction.

People who insist on pronouncing the word ‘news’ as ‘nooz’. It has a doubleyou in it, so pronounce it, you ankers.

Also, in a similar vein, the irritating woman on the telly yesterday who started almost every response to a question with “So, I mean, …” (Guest on Jeremy Vine Ch5 programme, my wife was watching on catch up, I couldn’t be elsewhere as I was cooking. That’s my excuse)