Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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I thought the cruise I went on last year was supposed to be no children but there were a few (very young) children onboard. None of them were an issue at all but I really couldn't work out why anyone would take very young toddlers and babies on a 10 day sea voyage to an Arctic environment. They probably bought the average age of the passengers down from 80 to 79 though.
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Selfish and an inability to understand that their needs are now, temporarily, a lower priority than their children.
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I actually had guys apologise to me many years ago at a pre-season friendly I took my lad to. I hadn't said anything and really wasn't bothered. They just noticed him and were suddenly very apologetic about it.
Turned out they were mates of one of the players so were just giving him dogs abuse in only the way a good friend can 😁
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I mean, I think children have as much a right to travel to places as other people.
I don't particularly think children necessarily have a right to be in pubs and bars. It's about context right?
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Kids swearing is very funny though.
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God not for the parents, I’d be mortified. So far have managed to get to 5 and a half but it’s only a matter of time.
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Apparently kids being honest is a good thing but only up to a point. When I was about 5 my mum was talking to another woman who had a really yappy dog. My mum said "isn't that a lovely dog" and as I was brought up not to lie I said "no, it's horrible". My red faced mum ended her conversation, dragged me home and sent me straight to bed. I still like to remind her of it any time there's a discussion about honesty or embarassing kids.
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Both of my kids (7 & 10) seem to know most swear words but I don't think I've ever heard them using swear words in front of me or even when they think they are out of earshot - we were watching the bleeped version of Taskmaster with them but then accidentally started watching the regular one, they spend half of the show expressing their disapointment at Romesh Ranganathan's potty mouth 😄
I am pretty relaxed about it now, although once they have mastered swearing, they are going to have a wider vocabulary than me.
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The best one we had was a family gathering where my daughter, he was probably about 6 or 7, decided to tell a joke "what do you get if you cross a fish with a duck". Me and the wife looked at each other in horror hoping the answer was going to be "a dish" but no, of course it wasn't!
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Surely the thing people need to teach their kids about swearing is not to not swear, but when and were not to swear? Because they are going to swear.
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it's an age thing.
You want to get to a point where they dare to swear at an old enough age that you can teach them the context.
3 year olds who swear will swear whenever they fancy it.
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Even now I don't think I've ever sworn in front of my parents. I can only once remember swearing in front of the kids and that was when someone drove out right in front of me and I forgot they were in the back seat. It's weird how you can switch from going from potty mouth to civilised without even thinking about it.
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I was never taught that.
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I was never taught anything about swearing, but I never ever swore in front of my parents (because they never ever swore in front of me), or (as far as I'm aware) swear in any context where it might cause offence. OTOH, I love swearing at the right time with the right people, and have a slightly odd interest in it as an intellectual subject.
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Why is it selfish? One of the few good tips I read was to do things you like with your kids, because your enthusiasm is what matters. For some people that is cooking, for others it is fishing. For me it is travel.
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i live at one end of a one way street.
Only they’ve added a “no entry” road sign ⛔️ at the entrance of it. Which now means both ends of the road have a no entry sign…⛔️ ⛔️
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As such, there are now cars zooming down both ways.
wtf
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Devastated. Who do Turkey think they are?!
Yet another sign of our national decline! 😕
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Who drinks tea in this millennium? Is the decline due to the boomers and previous starting to die?
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Welcome to a car free street.
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Are they including apple tea in that? They love that in Türkiye
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Me. I drink tea.
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April frigging showers.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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That they've started putting pineapple in jars of jalapeños. Totally cynical move to pad out the jars and give you less of what you actually want as far as I can see.
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That f'king Scottish Listerine Donkey advert on C4!!!
I'm vegan but still wish that f#@&%$£ would be boiled down into glue!
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Not only a holey jersey, but a direct hit on the nipple when a slippery road surface led me into a hedge dive. (Though that was the better option than a road dive.) It's sore. As I've never breast-fed a baby (for various reasons), it's not an experience I've had before.
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Surely it's no longer a jar of jalapeños.
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A workmate lost his wife in the birth of their child, he was left to bring up the little boy on his own.
During an early visit from district nurse or some such he was asked "How's the breastfeeding going?". 😲
We couldn't work out how someone would be so stupid or 'un-awake' as to ask this.
He replied, "I've tried it but it was hurting my nipples"
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My sister arrived at Heathrow around 5pm, I told her to take the SL7 bus to Kingston as it only stops twice and is quicker than me trying to pick her up when I finish work.
She sent me a message 40 minutes ago to say she was taking a bus to Richmond and would change there. In 45 minutes she's got as far as Feltham. She'll be well over an hour yet. If she'd waited 10 minutes for the bus I told her only stops twice she'd be here in 10 minutes.
The good news is, her not listening means I can have a shower before going to meet her.
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