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Everyday things we should no longer put up with:
1. Fluorescent lights - Take ages to come on, always on the blink, bulbs a pain to dispose of/break easily, noisy.
2. Local news websites - Utter horse*. Take ages to load up, once loaded you have to cancel off many pop-ups before you can even view the page, pages full of adverts, adverts that move about as you try and scroll to view the text, finally find the story you want to read so click on it only to go through the whole process once again. *e.
Invasions of other countries.
Etonians.
Sexism
Racism
Local news websites
They are universally shocking
Tories
Tories
Racism
Sexism
War
All are a given
Bike thieves.
Plastic coffee cup lids.
Meetings
2. Local news websites – Utter horse*. Take ages to load up, once loaded you have to cancel off many pop-ups before you can even view the page, pages full of adverts, adverts that move about as you try and scroll to view the text, finally find the story you want to read so click on it only to go through the whole process once again. *e.
Why not just read twitter or Facebook instead and cut out the middleman?
The amount of 'shaming' that goes on, on this very forum. 😥
rain.
pretending you 'need' to eat meat, at the expense of animals lives, welfare and the environment.
Putin.
Littering.
plus all what has been said already.
Single use plastics
Social media influencers
Non-thermostatic mixer showers.
Oh someone three streets away filled their kettle. Better scald / freeze you for a bit.
Cutting in while decorating. Surely we can invent a better way to paint straight lines?
The narrow gaps on wooden benches.
Dog owners who don't pick after their dog or bag it and dump the bag instead of binning it
Boris Johnson
Heh Damn right fasthaggis
StuE at the top of my street there’s a dog poo bin, right opposite it 1.5 m away there’s a full dog poo bag hung in a bush
In addition to @StuE - people that let their dogs shit on the pavement outside of schools and then don't pick it up so you have dodge from side to side so you don't inadvertently step in a shirehorse worthy mountain of cack.
That and Tories, all of them.
pretending you ‘need’ to eat meat, at the expense of animals lives, welfare and the environment.
Is it Ok to just eat it because you like it? And you don't care about suffering or the environment?
Q-anon, Anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and all the conspiracy theory nut-jobs
Media that gives platforms to these people for ‘balance’ without ever questioning the validity of their argument.
as a grumpy ageing man most of the above plus feedback surveys even if i buy a nail from Screwfix.
Youtubers wandering around trail centre carparks with a selfie stick asking people to like and subscribe to their crappy POV videos so they can hopefully, eventually blag some free product.
Is it OK to eat meat if it is extensively grazed within the UK, which is far better for the environment than almost all crop production anywhere in the world, where anything other than the crop being grown is killed off with chemicals, there is extensive irrigation, plastic is used to cover thousands of hectares of ground, cheap labour is used in the picking and packing, and transport of the crops from half way round the world is normal?
Just asking
Yes, similarly I’ll add the constant emails from Amazon and eBay about something I happened to briefly look at, and Amazon recommending things that I’ve already bought
Cancer
Dementia
Parkinsons
MS
and any other degenerative illnesses that should have been cured by now.
plus feedback surveys even if i buy a nail from Screwfix.
That made me chuckle
Social Media - STW not included obviously
Being forced to read local news websites, apparently.
As a veggie I’d say it is WF, though sadly I’d guess that’s only a small percentage of meat that’s consumed in the UK
BBC local news not in HD.
2. Local news websites – Utter horse*. Take ages to load up, once loaded you have to cancel off many pop-ups before you can even view the page, pages full of adverts, adverts that move about as you try and scroll to view the text, finally find the story you want to read so click on it only to go through the whole process once again. *e.
Well, colour me astonished. I thought from many posts over the years that adverts and pop-ups only ever happened on STW.
Child abuse
Child trafficking
Modern day slavery
Is it Ok to just eat it because you like it? And you don’t care about suffering or the environment?
I'd say that's a far more valid argument than what usually gets presented, yes.
I couldn't care less what other people eat. Attempting to justify it by bleating on about teeth or depth perception or any other pseudoscientific whataboutery you care to mention, that's irritating. You want to eat meat, fill your boots, but for the love of your messiah of choice just shut the **** up about it.
Speeding. Just put some kind of GPS limiter in cars already.
Millitant Vegans.
PETA shoving leaflets through my door. If they didn't murder, sorry Euthanise 80% of the animals taken to their shelters I might listen. Then again they once dropped into a twitter convo I was having with a link to an article about what happens to meat in your digestive system. It was describing digestion. They went quiet when I mentioned plants go through the same process.
Might not sound like it, but I have no issues with vegetarianism or veganism.
Bob Harris and country music in general
pretending you ‘need’ to eat meat, at the expense of animals lives, welfare and the environment.
The amount of ‘shaming’ that goes on, on this very forum. 😥
1. Stuff I don't like.
2. Stuff I won't like tomorrow but can't be arsed to do anything about today.
3. Stuff people I don't like like.
Narcissistic hatemongers of all shapes and sizes. Farage. Fox. Etc.
Liars.
29th Feb
PETA shoving leaflets through my door. If they didn’t murder, sorry Euthanise 80% of the animals taken to their shelters I might listen.
Would that be the same lot who once ( not too long ago ) ran a campaign that likened pet ownership to slavery 😡
PETA shoving leaflets through my door. If they didn’t murder, sorry Euthanise 80% of the animals taken to their shelters I might listen.
Joe Exotic is in the house!
God damn that Carol Baskin!
Is it Ok to just eat it because you like it? And you don’t care about suffering or the environment?
As long as you are honest about it then yep. I think that is why it was stated as not okay to pretend you eat if for other reasons.
Whats so special about 2022 ?
Alcohol.
You want to eat meat, fill your boots, but for the love of your messiah of choice just shut the * up about it.
See also, You don't want to eat meat, fill your boots, but for the love of your messiah of choice just shut the * up about it.
Highrollers
Humanity as a whole. It seems we can't have nice things without bad things happening too.
Labels... putting labels on human beings...
This post promised some light hearted frivolity, but I see that didn't last long! I propose:
Cushions. Particularly the 20 or so I have to remove to get into bed, or sit on the sofa.
Stickers on apples, if I spot them and remember to remove them they are a PITA to get rid of, but more often than not I forget and end up eating them. They convey no useful info, what the **** are they for?
Hard plastic blister packed products that need an angle grinder to open.
things that have no place in 2022
****ing moaning.
Allowing people to send Emails for free.
If the internet/web people charge a tiny amount, say 0.001p those who send normal numbers of emails, a few a a day would hardly notice. Even companies send 10,000's a day for reasonable marketing proposes could handle the cost.
But spammers... sending millioooons a day (on the hope of a phish) would be quickly priced out of the market.
Hard plastic blister packed products that need an angle grinder to open.
This also made me chuckle
2021 calendar
Monetary snobbery leveraged to upsell a lifestyle
Fake enthusiasm and stealth salespeople.
Web forums that crash
29th Feb
🙂
I'll go with rice cakes and more of a general all the time one cheese and onion crisps in blue bags and salt and vinegar crisps in green bags,even after all these years it still annoys the hell out of me.
2. Local news websites
Many are published by one group (Reach plc). It's equally irritating to read "local" items that are recycled from other areas.
The third world.
Poverty.
Hunger.
No access to healthcare, sanitation and a roof over your head.
The money spent on space projects and the like when the above exist.
99% of the world's wealth belonging to 1% of the population.
Capitalism
Poverty
Hatred
Waste
Grand Designs and other aspirational tv
Hard plastic blister packed products that need an angle grinder to open.
Did you know an old school tin opener ( the ones with the butterfly handle you turn) opens them neatly and easily
things that have no place in 2022
Capital letters at the start of sentences by the look of it.
Meatloaf.
Copper cable telecommunications systems! When I was in North Africa if there was habitation, there was a mobile signal. So why do I have to go 6 miles to get a signal and have to rely on a copper cable for all my (UK in the 21st century) needs? At best 2 mbs, dropping to 0.3 whenever it rains.
(and before anyone says there are satellite solutions, I know that, but to get a highspeed unlimited connection is ££££££££££££)
Any sort of food packaging which is half air.
Ah a personal, really really specific pet hate, but- promotions in shops that make smaller packets/bottles cheaper than the bigger ones. Like, 2 litres of pepsi for £2, 1.25 litres for £1. **** off. Bigger packs should always be cheaper, it's so much more efficient for manufacturer and seller and cuts waste and nobody actually gains by doing this sort of discounting, it's a total loss-loss-loss.
Capital letters at the start of sentences by the look of it
There was and there wasn’t, my title has been modded even though I didn’t write a naughty word (I just used ‘*’ 4 times with an e on the end) so depending on the word you thought of it could’ve started with a capital letter
Labels… putting labels on human beings…
Indeed...they keep falling off.
Can anyone recommend a label which will actually stick to your averagee example of homo sapiens
Homophobia
Transphobia
People who think there are only two genders BECAUSE CHROMOSOMES AND I'M A SCIENTIST
People who think I should only wear one type of leg covering just because I have a penis.
And yes, of course racism and sexism.
Millitant Vegans.
PETA shoving leaflets through my door.
To be fair, the vegans hate PETA probably more than the carnivores do.
See also, You don’t want to eat meat, fill your boots, but for the love of your messiah of choice just shut the **** up about it.
Fair, though this isn't an even split.
People who think I should only wear one type of leg covering just because I have a penis.
The Scots are on the phone, they'd like a word. 😁
Can anyone recommend a label which will actually stick to your averagee example of homo sapiens
Don't stick them on, nail them on. Whatever happened to good old determinism.
Boris Johnson, Pritti Patel, Pob Gove, and Dominic ****ing arsehole Raab for a start
things that have no place in 2022
Any thing or behaviour that overwhelmingly continues to contribute to:
-Climate change
-Misinformation
-Conspiracy culture
-Holocene extinction event
-Racism
-Cruelty and unnecessary suffering
That will do for now.
Light hearted, silly threads.
Eating kitkats without breaking each individual finger off the rest.
The Game.
Liars
That’s everyone then. Everybody fibs to some degree and if you claim you don’t, well, your pants are on fire!
I’d like to nominate the perpetually offended and being very serious about everything. Cancel culture too. If you don’t agree with somebody then have a debate about it. Completely unreasonable to demand somebody be silenced.
The different types of screwdrivers, curtain attaching things and chargers. Lack of hoverboards.
On a bike related theme, new standards and stupid names. Yes I’m looking at you down country.
Also working for a living. Pull your ****ing finger out science and get on with replacing us all with robots so we can do more fun stuff.
Filming in portrait.