Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

rjsterry

pinno said:

His article makes a valid point (Although a bit laboured).
The article could be summarised to:
The practice of genital manipulation to satisfy gender confusion in children is wrong.

What is has to do with the 'left' or Marx, I haven't a clue.

It's Jordan Peterson. Rambling is pretty much guaranteed. This is a man who is living on a meat only diet and muses on exactly which women he finds attractive and why on his daughter's podcast.

pinno

rjsterry said:

pinno said:

His article makes a valid point (Although a bit laboured).
The article could be summarised to:
The practice of genital manipulation to satisfy gender confusion in children is wrong.

What is has to do with the 'left' or Marx, I haven't a clue.

It's Jordan Peterson. Rambling is pretty much guaranteed. This is a man who is living on a meat only diet and muses on exactly which women he finds attractive and why on his daughter's podcast.

Strange.

Although I did like the word 'coterie'. Never heard it before.
Slightly different from 'clique'.

Jezyboy

A self help author saying they aren't in the game of offering cheap advice seems a bit rich..

pinno

Jezyboy said:

A self help author saying they aren't in the game of offering cheap advice seems a bit rich..

Maybe he's in the game of expensive advice.

Jezyboy

pinno said:

Jezyboy said:

A self help author saying they aren't in the game of offering cheap advice seems a bit rich..

Maybe he's in the game of expensive advice.

He hit the big time promoting his self help book. You can pick it up for a fiver on kindle. It's not expensive advice!

pinno

Jezyboy said:

pinno said:

Jezyboy said:

A self help author saying they aren't in the game of offering cheap advice seems a bit rich..

Maybe he's in the game of expensive advice.

He hit the big time promoting his self help book. You can pick it up for a fiver on kindle. It's not expensive advice!

I know it sounds funny but I won't bother.

orraloon

Tripping over the power lead to the vac and breaking the power socket faceplate. On the last day I'll be using a vac in this rental hotel. Arris. Replaced it now, but time wasted.

rick_chasey

Nice to know that bureaucracy in the Netherlands can be equally irritating and set up their own insolvable catch-22s.

gethinceri

Dani Rowe’s commentary

Pross

The Welsh Government is starting to provide free school meals for all primary school children and whilst it's slightly annoying that public money should be used to pay to feed the kids of those parents who can afford to pay for it themselves the bit that annoyed me most is comments from parents along the lines of "it costs me £13 a week for each of my kids to have a school meal" as though feeding their offspring should be a government responsibility.

pinno

orraloon said:

Tripping over the power lead to the vac and breaking the power socket faceplate. On the last day I'll be using a vac in this rental hotel. Arris. Replaced it now, but time wasted.

Well you would hare about like a headless chicken.

mully79

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Pross said:

The Welsh Government is starting to provide free school meals for all primary school children and whilst it's slightly annoying that public money should be used to pay to feed the kids of those parents who can afford to pay for it themselves the bit that annoyed me most is comments from parents along the lines of "it costs me £13 a week for each of my kids to have a school meal" as though feeding their offspring should be a government responsibility.

I’m more with Rashford on this. Feed the kids, give them all equal chance to reach their potential regardless of parents views/incomes.

IMO, Feeding kids healthy food and teaching kids how to cook their own healthy meals should be part of the curriculum.

Pross

mully79 said:

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Pross said:

The Welsh Government is starting to provide free school meals for all primary school children and whilst it's slightly annoying that public money should be used to pay to feed the kids of those parents who can afford to pay for it themselves the bit that annoyed me most is comments from parents along the lines of "it costs me £13 a week for each of my kids to have a school meal" as though feeding their offspring should be a government responsibility.

I’m more with Rashford on this. Feed the kids, give them all equal chance to reach their potential regardless of parents views/incomes.

IMO, Feeding kids healthy food and teaching kids how to cook their own healthy meals should be part of the curriculum.

I'd rather see the money spent providing more support for those who can't afford things than paying to feed kids because their parents are too lazy to give them a decent meal. It's just encouraging bad parenting. Besides, the quality of food in schools still isn't that great from what I've seen.

First.Aspect

Coming down a hill on first commute in a while, yesterday and a van pulled out on me, driver checking phone. Contacted company (not a first encounter), driver fessed up and they are dealing with it proportionately.
All good.

But the call from their fleet manager very soon got on to mitigating factors such as:

1. they've worked with us for a long time
2. I've got advanced driving qualifications so I know what I'm talking about
3. its a tricky junction*

Setting aside that all junctions are tricky if you are texting, how is any of this relevant to my degree of being dead?

(*it has 300 m visibility)

pblakeney

First.Aspect said:

1. they've worked with us for a long time
2. I've got advanced driving qualifications so I know what I'm talking about
3. its a tricky junction*

1. So?
2. No point in having them if you can't put it into practice.
3. No it's not.

On the phone. Illegal. No excuses. End of.

pblakeney

Similar point.
What's the difference between a phone and a CB radio? Yes, Top Gear, I'm looking at you.

First.Aspect

pblakeney said:

First.Aspect said:

1. they've worked with us for a long time
2. I've got advanced driving qualifications so I know what I'm talking about
3. its a tricky junction*

1. So?
2. No point in having them if you can't put it into practice.
3. No it's not.

On the phone. Illegal. No excuses. End of.

Well quite. I did ask how tricky a junction needed to be before it was okay to knock a cyclist off their bike; and suggested that he might want to consider his messaging.

It isn't easy to outwit a half wit, you just need more than half a wit. It is just annoying, that's all.

kingstongraham

First.Aspect said:

Coming down a hill on first commute in a while, yesterday and a van pulled out on me, driver checking phone. Contacted company (not a first encounter), driver fessed up and they are dealing with it proportionately.
All good.

But the call from their fleet manager very soon got on to mitigating factors such as:

1. they've worked with us for a long time
2. I've got advanced driving qualifications so I know what I'm talking about
3. its a tricky junction*

Setting aside that all junctions are tricky if you are texting, how is any of this relevant to my degree of being dead?

(*it has 300 m visibility)

Surely 3. is not a mitigating factor, it's an aggravating factor.

pangolin

kingstongraham said:

First.Aspect said:

Coming down a hill on first commute in a while, yesterday and a van pulled out on me, driver checking phone. Contacted company (not a first encounter), driver fessed up and they are dealing with it proportionately.
All good.

But the call from their fleet manager very soon got on to mitigating factors such as:

1. they've worked with us for a long time
2. I've got advanced driving qualifications so I know what I'm talking about
3. its a tricky junction*

Setting aside that all junctions are tricky if you are texting, how is any of this relevant to my degree of being dead?

(*it has 300 m visibility)

Surely 3. is not a mitigating factor, it's an aggravating factor.

No, he was texting for advice on how to handle the tricky junction.

veronese68

Having to clarify what I mean when ordering a coffee in Italy. A coffee is just a shot of espresso here, anything else is a modifier and needs clarification, which is fine. Too many American tourists have muddied the water. But still none of this matcha bollox like in the other thread.

JimD666

This isn't particularly trivial but....A woman complaining in the local shop about the prices of everything, how she's supposed to feed the children, heat the house and pay the bills etc etc while ordering a packet of cigs and £10 of scratch cards. And she does this almost every other day....

First.Aspect

JimD666 said:

This isn't particularly trivial but....A woman complaining in the local shop about the prices of everything, how she's supposed to feed the children, heat the house and pay the bills etc etc while ordering a packet of cigs and £10 of scratch cards. And she does this almost every other day....

Somewhat similarly, someone from a teaching union was on the radio complaining that some of their members couldn't afford their mortgages.

Sorry, what?

Jezyboy

First.Aspect said:

JimD666 said:

This isn't particularly trivial but....A woman complaining in the local shop about the prices of everything, how she's supposed to feed the children, heat the house and pay the bills etc etc while ordering a packet of cigs and £10 of scratch cards. And she does this almost every other day....

Somewhat similarly, someone from a teaching union was on the radio complaining that some of their members couldn't afford their mortgages.

Sorry, what?

What is you argument here? That teachers shouldn't be able to buy houses?

First.Aspect

Jezyboy said:

First.Aspect said:

JimD666 said:

This isn't particularly trivial but....A woman complaining in the local shop about the prices of everything, how she's supposed to feed the children, heat the house and pay the bills etc etc while ordering a packet of cigs and £10 of scratch cards. And she does this almost every other day....

Somewhat similarly, someone from a teaching union was on the radio complaining that some of their members couldn't afford their mortgages.

Sorry, what?

What is you argument here? That teachers shouldn't be able to buy houses?

No, that a 1% rise in a historically low base rate shouldn't justify a pay rise for middle class professionals.

If I went to my boss and said I needed a pay rise because I'd borrowed as much as I could afford, I don't think he'd be all that sympathetic.

It's just another teaching union / view of the world through a prism thing, that's all.

Jezyboy

Presumably they are struggling not because of the 1% base rate rise but the horrific inflation.

First.Aspect

Jezyboy said:

Presumably they are struggling not because of the 1% base rate rise but the horrific inflation.

Our firm gave everyone 2%.

And it was more about the argument that was presented, of hard pressed middle class homeowners. Rather than minimum wage renters, for example.

rick_chasey

Figured the 6:40, the third train on the schedule today would be fair game.

Slackers are running the first train at 7:30 - so I shall have to miss my breakfast meeting.

Will update on the quality of service.

Have yet to be on a train that isn’t so full people are standing.

pangolin

rick_chasey said:

Figured the 6:40, the third train on the schedule today would be fair game.

Slackers are running the first train at 7:30 - so I shall have to miss my breakfast meeting.

Will update on the quality of service.

Have yet to be on a train that isn’t so full people are standing.

Think there may be some kind of strike on Rick

rick_chasey

Not today ✌🏻✌🏻

pblakeney

Train services in Britain will continue to be disrupted on Wednesday as talks resume in a bid to resolve a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.
Millions of passengers were affected on Tuesday after rail workers walked out in the largest rail strike in decades.
While strikes are not being held on Wednesday, only 60% of trains are expected to be running.