For me, with the exception of professional musicians I've paid to see, it's watching anyone in close proximity to my ears pick up an acoustic guitar
It is always, without exception, absolutely bloody awful. Someone nearby is presently confirming this. Its like someone scraping a corpse down a blackboard
You? What, whenever you witness it, causes a little part of you to die?
Oh god, where to start..
Without picking on specific people, generalities such as
* Football
* Love Island and other such vacuous "entertainment" TV
* The Daily Mail
*Car-pointing (F1 racing)
when the phone rings, I look at the screen and a particular name / number is on the display (work related)
I know i have to take the call; but I know once it's over I'll feel like I've had a bollocking, whether I've actually had one or not.
Celebrities or children rapping. In fact anyone other than rappers rapping and even then it's often hit or miss.
It’s a pretty dark place that makes my heart sink.
Friday Surveys.
Dogs Barking
Dog Owners who leave Dog SHit everywhere in teeny bags for someone else to remove
Whining Teenagers
Stroppy Kids who incessantly cry "I want Mummy/Daddy"
Cattle that die during birthing time
This early middle age entitlement thing that has caught the nation by storm
Breiteers (obvz)
Old people who drive around in SUV's in "Green Mirror Reflective Sports Sunglasses"
MAWCB's who wear those long 3/4 length "shorts" in a taupe/beige M&S colourway and a t-shirt thats 14 times too large for them
Whining singers, particularly R&B whaling/nee screaming some tortuous words that don't fit the song.. Women singers are particularly bad at this, Mariah Carey is the one to blame
Chicken, any form, any variety unless it's organic free range.
Students that have no passion
Workplace meetings on a Friday
This is why I never play my guitar when anyone else can hear me.
But for me, it's my current project, at a place that's doing a project related to Brexit. So they keep talking about Brexit this and that - referring to the project. But every time I hear the word my heart sinks.
At the moment the 'entertainers' on church st Liverpool 4 within 50 m each playing a different genre all combining to just make noise. If your walking past all ok .. ooh thats good, however trapped on site opposite M & S all we can hear is the same Noise all Day .Now have the sinking M62 on a Friday feeling.. wish me luck.
James Corden
that moment after descending a bumpy descent where it occurs to me that my phone might have fallen out of my pocket, it's that moment between thinking about it and before you touch it, when you still might have lost it.
my infant's daughter's howl through the baby monitor.
Brexit Britain.
Everything else is temporary.
Amusing that I have a "rapper" rapping to acoustic guitar music going on in my earphones as I read this thread 😀
Acoustic guitar can be the most beautiful sound in the world!
My heart sinks if I see any second of Eastenders on the telly. To think of the millions watching that utter tripe and learning how to live their lives from it.
The boiler not working last weekend. ££££££££
Nearly phoned an engineer, then decided to pop the covers off whilst the missus was out. Nothing more than a coked up ignition and earth. Sorted. Saved the clenched teeth 'can't get parts for this' answer.
Sudden silence in a Server room, only worsened by a whooshing sound.
The theme tune to The Archers.
The All Blacks playing France in the Rugby World Cup Finals.
Archers theme tune +1 see also Eastenders theme tune. Ruins my evening if I forget to mute/switch channels in time.
The inability of the masses to pause in their instant gratification addiction.
The greed and cruelty of some people for short term gains and their ‘couldn’tgiveashittery’ attitude.
The praying on vulnerable groups in this current climate, see above.
But, hey it’s Friday,the sun is shining and I have some top tunes to listen to on the way home.
PEACE 🙂
Celebrity culture, soap operas, most newspapers and entitled parents in faux-by-faux delivering their children to another hour of school after school hours (I work opposite the Kip McGrath office), bills on cars.
MAWCB’s
Pardon my ignorance - what is one of those?
Not being able to swim
Middle
Aged
White
Collar
Boxers
????
Being asked to present. I am in a senior position so it happens quite a lot and I dont particularly like standing in front of large groups. Ironically it is often the "thought" of the giving the presentation rather than the event itself, which tend to go OK.
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The inability of the masses to pause in their instant gratification addiction.
when people I mistakenly thought were pretty decent, functioning human beings turn out to be rabid EDL, "tommy robinson is a hero of the people, etc.." knuckle dragging fascists
it’s watching anyone in close proximity to my ears pick up an acoustic guitar
I see your guitar, and raise you a eukalele. In a campsite just as you're settling in for a mellow evening.
That and any of the Nationwide 'poetry' ads.
This is number one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44410824
In the past these below ... But not anymore ... I ignore them.
Threads based on Music, Surfing and Devon on here.
People using Faceache/****ter etc. to prove how they are completely above any of the plebs.
It's up there with the opening line from the Vegan Crossfitters.....
Stuck in traffic and then watching the blue lights go past....
For so many reasons......😥
Threads based on Music.. on here.
Me too. The one's I'm not involved in anyway.
i love my daughter (8 years of age) but her love of the You-Tuber "celebrity", these are just people with huge egos who think we want to listen to them saying what they ate for tea, or doing it clearly just to get free stuff.
Linked to the above, (i love America as a country but..) THAT American accent that is 99% whine...
Any record that is all auto-tune....
Ed Sheeran when he raps..
Bear bloody Grylls...
I could go on all day to be honest.
1. The Daily Mail
2. Self-absorbed drivers
3. Self-absorbed people in general
4. Brexit (yes, even now. I don't want to make a political point, as I know that some people have legitimate problems with aspects of the EU; but the implications of Brexit, and what it does to the noble idea of a united Europe after WW2, is heart-breaking)
Dying family, friends and pets.
Anything else I can resolve to my satisfaction.
Watching the clock on a Friday afternoon while realising that I get picked up on Sunday to be on an exhibition stand in Germany all next week.
Going to miss my babies.
Going to miss my bikes.
Going to have to have the same conversation about pumps with many people over the week.
People who have an inability to distinguish between things that they think or believe to the true and actual evidence-based fact to the point where they unleash borderline abuse on others simply for not having the same opinion as them.
And I'll fight any of you losers who disagrees with me 🙂
people using sellotape to stick posters up depresses me too. Think of the paintwork...
The thought and action of actually ringing TalkTalk 🙁
Folks that sing with an acoustic guitar, but to make it "better" they also have to do that drum slapping shit on the body of the guitar
Trump's face
Those family stickers on the backs of cars, especially when they try to be clever about it
A plate of scotch eggs that have all been cut in half.
Sitting down with your legs humming after a longish ride.
Saw this in the heart sing thread. Not being able to experience this feeling anymore for me.
Losing a Tyne / Wear derby to Sunderland ..
Thankfully that isn't going to happen for a good few years 😁
When an old biking buddy tells you he's bought a fat bike/gravel bike. Then evangelises about how they really are amazing you know, can do everyfink better than all my otherer bikes....
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Pardon my ignorance – what is one of those?
Middle
Aged
Whiney
Cock
Bags.
I didn’t invent the terminology, it’s been used in here for years. (I expect the 4th word to be asterisked out)
Middle
Class
Whiney
Cock
Bags
as to what makes my heart sink:
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The fact that Idiocracy is now a reality that is gathering momentum by the day.
People I'd hitherto liked and respected using the phrase "Everything happens for a reason.".
Looking at my bank balance.
Can you just....
1. draw this?
2. discount your price by about 50%?
3. do this thing as well?
4. move the spine wall by 15mm?
Oh, did I forget to give you the tolerance for verticality?
If the meeting wasn't minuted then I never said that.
waking up.
The thought of work on Monday .
Agile.
Humpback bridges, rollercoasters etc.....
The Ingham Family. Particularly Chris. “It’s so fresh guys! I’m super excited! It tastes so good!”.
Motorbikes racing their loud crotch rockets past my house. Four deaths in the last 10 months on that stretch of road - all under 25 yo. Why won't they learn?
When that ****ing prick starts pissing about with the plumbing on hplc 12.
When I'm out in town in the day and see parents with young kids (2-6) who clearly don't give a crap about their kids. Either letting then roam around near busy roads, being ignored, fed crappy food, being screamed at etc.
Those poor kids have the odds stacked against them from the start and it worries me what they're going to end up like in future life 🙁
People throwing rubbish out of car windows.
Adults ignoring children whilst being dicking around with their phones
People who keep their phone(s) on the table in front them at dinner , and are so addicted they snatch it every time it bleeps
People refusing to stop to let old people cross the road. / getting irate when I do.
Hearing about the 90 year old who got beaten in a robbery at her house.
'The thought and action of actually ringing TalkTalk 🙁'
Oh how I feel your pain. What a bunch of incompetents. They are an organisation (in the loosest meaning of the word) who are supposedly meant to be there to help us communicate. A bunch of seemingly illiterate half- wits who don't even communicate with each other.
Two recent instances
1 My 24 month contract is up, so I am offered an introductory loyalty discount on a new contract at a premium increased by 40%. despite having repeatedly told them I'm not interested. Repeatedly. especially when my broadband connection is currently running at a totally spiffing! 14.9 mps. Last week it was at 5.0 mps.
2 In relation to the poor BB speed, it was agreed that TalkTalk would call me on my home number between 18:00 and 21:00 tonight. So they called me at work, on my (set to silent) mobile. And then left a nice text to let me know that because they were unable to contact me they would close the complaint issue. Unless of course I contacted them, which I later did. I ended up talking to some corporate-speaking operative who offered me mindless platitudes and promised that I would be contacted once I was at home, at the previously agreed time, on the agreed number, so that work to sort the fault could be done. Have they contacted me? Have they ****.
As I wrote above, a bunch of incompetents.
Another injury. Especially when you have just got over the previous one. Dammit.
People. Generally, it's all down to people.
Two (count them! 2!!!) threads on STW about a tv programme for morons is quite depressing really.
The human race
When anyone says "Today's busy lives" - why are our lives any busier today than they where in the past?
When a politician says “Hard Working families” – what's wrong with lazy families?
What The Pilot said.
Any member of the Johnson clan popping up in the media and opening their mouth
Bloody Stupid Johnson?
Jack Johnson?
Adverts with an american accent - no wait - adverts with an american whinny accent - arrrhg wait - adverts with an american whinny accent and rising pitch intonation.
