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Please tell us about something you would love to ban from the face of the Earth. It must be a material thing (i.e. not a person or an idea), and you are encouraged to do so with an accompanying rant if you can summon up the energy.
For me, it's got to be those ****ing 'extend-a-leads' so favoured by sanctimonious and thoughtless dog walkers today. Everyday, twice a day, I ride through Pontcanna Fields, where dog walkers gather in the gazillions and do one of two things:
1. Shuffle along while staring at their phones, and their dog wanders all over the shared-use path, creating a moving booby-trap, similar to the ones you find on MTB trails from time to time.
2. Stand around and talk with other dog 'walkers' while their dogs run and play - some of which are on leads; some of which are not - creating a veritable spider web of string, and striking terror into any passing commuter for fear that one of the dogs will cross the shared-use path at any moment.
Either way, the dog walkers are deceiving themselves into thinking they're doing something beneficial; they are endangering their own animals; and they are endangering all sorts of innocent passers-by.
Ban 'em!
road bikes
I'd like to ban people who blame inanimate objects instead of the stupid people who use them incorrectly.
"not tonight dear"
EVERYTHING!!
The more I look the more I see and the more I see the more it annoys me.
I'm in a monumentally grumpy mood today. I think I need to go and have a lie down in a darkened room. But that will probably annoy me too 🙂
Perfectly good leather boots that are then lined with foam and nylon.
Daily Mail
Takeaways.
I’d like to ban people who blame inanimate objects instead of the stupid people who use them incorrectly.
I knew someone would say this. But you broke the thread rule about people, put in place precisely to keep things irrational and reactive.
People who make arbitrary "thread rules"
Stop oppressing me, man.
Conference calls.
Plastic bottles
ban from the face of the Earth. It must be a material thing (i.e. not a person or an idea)
I'm really struggling. Everything has a place in the world - tracksuit bottoms, Chihuahuas, speakerphones, vaping thingies, ebikes.
I wouldn't want to ban from earth any of those things, just change or regulate their use.
Gambling. Massive net negative effect on society and individuals.
The Banhammer
Just automatically add them to the killfile. Or invite them to a separate "premium" forum for big hitters.
Insurance companies. Ban them all, the useless, irritating, robbing bastards. Then restart with a better way of doing something like insurance, but not called insurance and not run by money grabbing incompetent scumbags. I had the energy, oh yes.
Corporate lawyers, same comments as for Insurers, above.
Chewing gum, disgusting habit and really annoying when councils spend a forttune on nice stone paving only to have it permanently disfigured by thoughtless idiots spitting their filthy gum onto it. I bet they are the same people who film landscapes in portrait.
Alarm clocks - let your circadian rhythm dictate when you get up.
unrestricted ebikes. motorbikes.
Insurance companies. Ban them all, the useless, irritating, robbing bastards.
....until your house burns down.
Fennel.
Disgusting substance that nobody really likes anyway but insists on adding to dishes in order to appear sophisticated. Literally nobody likes it in reality and if they say they do, I know they're making it up for it is hideous.
Energy drinks. They give you so much energy that you must throw the empty can on the ground.
….until your house burns down.
It hasn't yet! But how much I have paid out for the 'just in case' privilege?!
Ban, stupid responses to my posts 😀
somewhatslightlydazed
Plastic bottles
I was going to say that as well.
What is it with these things, they wind up in landfill, or the side of roads, and eventually the ocean.
A symbol of our thoughtlessness and arrogance. "The water from the taps tastes bad. I could help fix the local water supply and provide clean fresh water for everyone, or I could solve the problem for myself and **** everyone else."
San Francisco *has* banned them.
It hasn’t yet! But how much I have paid out for the ‘just in case’ privilege?!
Unlike poor Garry who sits opposite me who is currently enjoying £130,000 of other peoples money to rebuild his house which was destroyed by a fire in September.
It's you that's paying for that you mug!
Every cruddy little cafe in every small town called 'The Coffee Pot'. Every cafe called 'The Coffee Pot' is owned by someone who has absolutely interest in coffee. Not people who make a bad attempt to make good coffee, but people who make no attempt at all.
Pugs and other pointless stupid looking little dogs.
Slow drivers- that do 30mph in a 50, or 40 in a 60, where you cant overtake them, and you cant just get in top gear and coast along. They force you into 3rd, using twice as much petrol, or take up all your attention, which you need for the riding. It takes twice as long for all the people stuck behind them to get anywhere, and winds everyone up,what a waste of time and life and money
And do they stop, to pay everyone for all the trouble and expense they cause? No, they just thinkt theyre saving the planet by driving slow
And as for all the superfluous road signs, multiple flashing speed lights, 20mph bolx,adverts, signs, lane markings, sleeping policemen, islands in the middle of the road etc, its a miracle that anyone has any attention left to ride a bike, after driving to the start
Oh, and parking charges!
Ayrshire.
I mean, what's the point?
you're right - we should all be driving faster with our minds on something else 🙂
I mean, what’s the point?
It stops Glasgow from bumping into Galloway 🙂
Ayrshire.
I mean, what’s the point?
Tatties.
Religion, then Rangers and Celtic.
Christmas
New year
Bank holidays
Charity
Alcohol fuelled weekends
Private and public schools
Cars
Elite Universities
Religion
Plastic
Pet owners
Trust fund ****s
Lawyers
Accountants
Estate Agents
The building of more shit modern housing.
Eurovision song contest
Po faced joggers/roadies
Chewing gum on pavements
Dog dirt on pavements
UK's incompetent and corrupt political class
Tossers walking around in five a side gear in January
Fat chav molls displaying there tattoos
Beggars
Chuggers
Soap Operas
Parmos
The means test
The poll tax
Football and its obnoxious followers
Golf
Betting shops
Britains army of modern little Hitlers.
All social media
House builders
Evans cycles
I'll think of some more later.
Leaving engine running while parked up.
It's on a par with drink-driving as a taboo in Switzerland, but every other fat, Daily Mail reading gammon seems to do it outside my kids' school.
And yes, I can tell they're Mail readers because they are reading it with their ****ing engines running.
Any filming or interviewing of Farage.
Anyone caught near him with a microphone or a camera, instant fine/prison sentence.
Cars that are considerably larger than required for the individual's or family's requirements.
Ohh, and parking on pavements.
Plastics.
Public sale of fireworks. They're explosives for forks sake.
Horses being ridden on pavements and pooing all over them with impunity.
Love Island
Stupid marker pen eyebrows and "aesthetics" salons. Dicks the lot 'em.
Tight blue trousers and brown brogues combo.
Crossbows
TV Beds. Beds with an actual inetgrated TV in the footboard. It might be only one specific thing, but as a place to start it's a good one.
https://www.dreams.co.uk/beds/tech-tv-beds
I had no idea these existed until recently when a mate showed me round his new house including a TV bed bed contraption. Holy sweet hell - WHY? Just WHYYY?
It just seems to be the pinnacle of the unholy trinity of a cynical culture industry, conspicuous consumption and sloth. Now your kids can be conceived under the blueish glow of the latest series of love island, if one of you can even be bothered to flip over. Nah just order a takeaway on just eat and have that in bed while you have another duvet day. With the world's knowledge at our fingertips this is where we've got to.
Anything calling itself a pie that doesn't fall within the(*) strict definitions of what a pie actually is.
(*) ie. MY definitions. Pastry all the way round unless pie is either a pudding (such as Lemon meringue, key lime, banoffee) or a Fish Pie, a Cottage Pie or a Shepherds Pie.
Religion, then Rangers and Celtic.
Agreed but can you imagine if that lot disappeared overnight? I don't think the good citizens of New Cumnock would form a poetry group and take up gardening on a saturday afternoon.
Guns
The military
The honours system
Private ownership of Newspaper,trains,busses and all utilities.
Private landlords,in particular those who pretend they are providing a service and start obnoxious tenant threads(I'm looking at you Tj)
Mini bonds
All weapons of mass financial destruction.
Christmas
New year
Bank holidays
Charity
Alcohol fuelled weekends
Private and public schools
Cars
Elite Universities
Religion
Plastic
Pet owners
Trust fund ****
Lawyers
Accountants
Estate Agents
The building of more shit modern housing.
Eurovision song contest
Po faced joggers/roadies
Chewing gum on pavements
Dog dirt on pavements
UK’s incompetent and corrupt political class
Tossers walking around in five a side gear in January
Fat chav molls displaying there tattoos
Beggars
Chuggers
Soap Operas
Parmos <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
The means test
The poll tax
Football and its obnoxious followers
Golf
Betting shops
Britains army of modern little Hitlers.
All social media
House builders
Evans cycles
Do I get a prize for spotting the deliberate mistake?
On a more serious note I reckon banning of gifts to political parties would do a lot to improve the workings of democracy.
Glum, miserable ,whining old people that think moving to Scotland will somehow cure their condition.
WHY? Just WHYYY?
Linked cam above the bed?
Nazis
Microsoft One Drive
Marmite
On a more serious note I reckon banning of gifts to political parties would do a lot to improve the workings of democracy.
A wonderful, yet totally unworkable, idea.
Smoking
Vaping
40mphers
Littering of any kind
Flying
Cruises
People/companies not paying their fair share of tax
Politicians lying
Papers lying
People having more than 1 child
People posting ‘fake news’ on social media
Brexit
Glum, miserable ,whining old people that think moving to Scotland will somehow cure their condition.
Ohh god yes - people who've moved to the middle of nowhere to 'get away from it all' only to find the 'it all' they were trying to get away from was them. They then get furious at everyone and everything around them for their happiness not happening. There's a particularly fine example in Dundonnell and theres one absolute corker in Glen Ettive.
Dog shit on pavements. Specifically people not picking up their dogs crap and leaving it for me to step on at night. Oh also dog shit in bags up a tree WTAF!
cars
- they kill and maim far too many people
- they dictate the shape of, and dominate our landscapes
- they make people lazy and fat
- they and their industry are barriers to progression
- they are too expensive to provide infrastructure for
- people don't realise quite how much their cars have power over them
Dog owners.
narcissistic selfies
(so i guess thats near enough every single selfie taken)
Politicians lying .
Litter .
Troll threads on a Celtic Union. 😉
Singletrackworld.com
Would solve the uk's low productivity problems
Commuting to sit at a desk with a computer and a phone.
I have a desk, computer and a phone at home
McDonald's.
They attract the worst of society, their packaging can be seen in pretty much every ditch and hedgerow in the land and encourage over consumption which leads to the obesity crisis we have in this country.
I also struggle to resist them, which is making me lose weight at a lower rate than I want.
I'm in one now 😊
Social media, actual social media (not like here) where people post banalities or propaganda then wait for likes.
It's horribly bad for your mental health.
Smoking. There is zero benefits to anyone who smokes and there is a constant pile of litter generated from it. Ban it, and ban it now.
Lunge
I see why you are so concerned 😉
Social media, actual social media (not like here) where people post banalities or propaganda then wait for likes.
Private ownership of Newspaper
So all newspapers must be owned by the state and therefore will be incentivised to support it and prop up the ruling party? Seems to be working well in Russia now that Putin has pretty much achieved that objective.
ebikes.
ebikes
Or, more accurately, ebikes that cost £11,000
People trying to impose rules on threads on discussion forums, just because they started them.
And #Brexit
Public sale of fireworks. They’re explosives for forks sake.
For Fawkes sake Shirley?
Offices. Horrible places and the root of many of society's ills such as transport/commuting/parking, bad backs/fatties, crappy lunches, Love Island and so on.
SaxonRider hogging the top 3 slots on the Chat forum
Melodramatics it’s literally what is wrong with society today, no wonder this country is going to the dogs.
Being sensible : Plastics. The fruit & veg aisle in every supermarket in the land has a small amount of unwrapped fruit & veg next to mountains upon mountains of the stuff wrapped in un-recyclable plastic.
Being silly: people saying Legos for Lego
Social media, actual social media (not like here) where people post banalities or propaganda then wait for likes.
It’s horribly bad for your mental health.
Agreed, but for me if it meant losing STW I'd accept it.
I think on balance it's worth a ban, for the things it does to kids heads to the way it mines our data and then sells it to people who can use all sorts of shady shit to make us believe bullshit it's doing more harm than good now.
It could be policed better, but they won't, it's too good a toy for the powers that be for them to want to stop it - it's the new Tabloid.
Plastics. The fruit & veg aisle in every supermarket in the land has a small amount of unwrapped fruit & veg next to mountains upon mountains of the stuff wrapped in un-recyclable plastic.
Is it just me or do all supermarkets now only sell mushrooms in pre-packaged packs? I like them but no-one else does in our house but none of our local supermarkets had anything put the packs when I looked at the weekend - I only want three or four of the things!
Wheeled suitcases. Especially now we have a 20kg weight limit on the majority of holiday flights. As a species are we really so ducking weedy that we are unable to carry 20kg a few dozen steps instead of dragging the bastard over the noisy stone floor of an airport? If you're that bloody weak what the hell are you going to do when you get wherever you're going other than laze around on a beach stuffing yourself silly with stuff that's going to give you the shits and drink yourself stupid with the all-inclusive pishh the resortt is palming off as cocktails, whilst forgetting all common-sense and frying yourself into a sunburned sack of offal while your kids ruin everybody else's holiday.
Is it just me or do all supermarkets now only sell mushrooms in pre-packaged packs?
Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and larger co-ops sell them loose, probably not the only ones.
Fossil fuels, ban them now. And single use plastic which would by default happen from banning fossil fuels
Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and larger co-ops sell them loose, probably not the only ones.
Sainsbury's (and Asda) in Harrogate didn't have any loose on Saturday. Shelves and shelves of pre-packed ones though - I was tempted to open a pack and just take what I wanted.
Bantz